Social Studies Unit 1 Vocabulary

A connection between two landmasses, especially a prehistoric one that allowed humans and animals to colonize new territory before being cut off by the sea, as across the Bering Strait and the English Channel.

• Land Bridge

• Migration

• economics

• geography

come in many forms. Sometimes these factors leave people with no choice but to leave their country of origin.

• Push Factor

• Pull Factor

• government

• holidays

a geography term that is used to describe factors that attract people to a country, region, religion, organization etc..

• Pull Factor

• Push Factor

• climate

• charter

movement from one part of something to another

• Migration

• settle

• economics

• artifacts

the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period

• climate

• charter

• Northwest Passage

• Religion

a member of any of the indigenous peoples of the Americas

• Native Americans

• Columbia Exchange

• geography

• explore

the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.

• culture

• geography

• government

• economics

the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries.

• culture

• geography

• government

• economics

System or group of people governing an organized community, often a state. It's like a clan with the purpose to govern the whole family or whole nation with powers of financial, military and civil laws.

• culture

• geography

• government

• economics

The social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

• culture

• geography

• government

• economics