Module 1 Review

The study of citizenship and government is called

• civics

• economics

• geography

• history

A major incentive to businesses and individuals in economics is (hint: there isn't a lot of something)

• money

• scarcity

• profit

• jobs

The study of the past based on what people left behind is called

• geography

• history

• archaeology

• democracy

A handwritten letter from a soldier to his family would be considered what kind of source

• primary

• secondary

____ is the study of the past whether recent or long ago.

• archaeology

• history

• civics

• geography

What branch of geography studies landforms, climate, and resources?

• physical

• human

People who study the rocks of the earth

• historians

• geologists

• writers

• archaeologists

people who comment on current issues

• writers

• historians

• politicians

• geologists

Which statement describes the importance of secondary sources to historians?

• A secondary source provides an account of an event by a person who witnessed it.

• A secondary source provides the reader with the original wording of a legal document.

• A secondary source allows the reader to understand different viewpoints of the same event.

• A secondary source allows a person to actually hear the voice of a person who lived long ago.

Which of the 6th Essential Elements of Geography deals with patterns of population?

• Environment and Society

• World in Spatial Terms

• Physical Systems

• Human Systems