Social Studies 101 Vocab Review

distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees

• Equator

• Latitude

• Scarcity

• Diplomacy

a very small supply

• Barter

• Democracy

• Republic

• Scarcity

total rule by one person; a nation or country ruled by a king or queen

• Longitude

• Monarchy

• Pull Factor

• Oligarchy

things/factors that drive people to emigrate from their home countries

• Command Economic System

• Democracy

• Push Factor

• Prime Meridian

an imaginary circle around the earth equally distant from the north pole and the south pole

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

• Free Market Economy

• Dictatorship

a first-hand original account, record, or evidence about a person, place, object, or an event

• Republic

• Oligarchy

• Primary Source

• Longitude

distance measured in degrees east or west of an imaginary line that runs from the north pole to the south pole and passes through Greenwich, England

• Longitude

• Secondary Source

• Democracy

• Pull Factor

the planet’s line of zero degrees longitude, an imaginary line that runs from the north pole to the south pole and passes through Greenwich, England

• Free Market System

• Monarchy

• Prime Meridian

• Equator

an economic system that relies on customs, history, and time-honored beliefs

• Traditional Economic System

• Command Economic System

• Free Market Economic System

• Theocracy

a government in which the power is held by the people and used by them directly or indirectly through representation

• Monarchy

• Oligrachy

• Theocracy

• Democracy