Foundations of Social Studies

The study of past events.

• evidence

• history

• timeline

• place

Proof that something happened or is true.

• geography

• timeline

• evidence

• cause

Information from someone who witnessed an event.

• primary sources

• geography

• cause

• movement

Information from someone who did NOT witness an event.

• place

• secondary sources

• timeline

• historian

The way someone looks at an issue, an event, or a person.

• point of view

• chronological order

• human characteristics

• historian

The study of the earth and everything on it.

• evidence

• historian

• geography

• timeline

Geographic features that come from nature.

• physical characteristics

• movement

• region

• evidence

Features on the earth's surface that were made by people.

• movement

• place

• human characteristics

• location

not having enough of something

• civics

• consumer

• capital resources

• scarcity

Which feature is shown on a political map?

• climate

• boundaries

• languages spoken

• mineral deposits