Social Studies Vocab Unit 1

The study of the past

• history

• geography

• social studies

• evidence

a recording of an event by people who were there

• primary source

• secondary source

an item that proves something true

• place

• scarcity

• geographer

• evidence

something written about an event by someone who was NOT there

• primary source

• secondary source

the way a person looks or feels about something

• point of view

• historian

• timeline

• effect

order something happened in

• point of view

• chronological order

• cause

• location

the RESULT of what happened

• cause

• effect

a person who studies the past

• political scientist

• historian

• mr kimes

• sources

reason WHY it happened

• cause

• effect

the study of earth, its features, and how people use it

• history

• geography

• politics

• civics