Social Studies Review 2023

Social Studies is the study of:

• socialism

• people

• the Earth

• history

Studying people by examining what they have left behind is called:

• academic socialism

• secondary examination

• primary sourcing

• archaeology

An object left behind by earlier people, long ago or recently, is called a / an:

• artifact

• dialogue matrix

• chain of evidence

• observation qualifier

Something directly connected to history, like a letter written by someone who was there, is known as a / an:

• secondary source

• archaeo-writing

• primary source

• juggernaut

The first known form of writing is known as:

• legiform

• cuneiform

• aldaberaand

• scrawl

The earliest civilizations, as far as we know at this point, grew up where?

• North America and South America

• Mesopotamia and Egypt

• Spain

• Present-day China

Which of the following is NOT a continent?

• Australia

• Russia

• South America

• Asia

Civilizations tend to grow up in:

• river valleys

• mountainous areas

• beside oceans

• near volcanoes

12,000 years ago (approximately), people began systematically planting food. What was this called:

• Farm Day

• the Agricultural Revolution

• the Great Planting

• the Great Beginning

When civilizations can grow more food, they can support:

• pets

• more boat-building

• more armies

• more people