Social Studies: Ch. 1 & 2 Vocab

A record of the past is called

• culture

• geography

• history

• government

The study of people, places, and the environment is called

• history

• geography

• government

• economics

The people and groups within a society that have the authority to make laws is

• history

• geography

• economics

• government

A legal member of a country is a

• citizen

• culture region

• government

• migrant

The study of how people manage their resources by producing, exchanging, and using goods and services is

• culture

• government

• economics

• geography

A word economists use to describe the conflict between people's desires and limited resources is

• economy

• scarcity

• government

• history

The beliefs, customs, laws, art, and ways of living that a group of people share is

• economy

• government

• culture

• history

An area of the world in which many people share similar beliefs, history, and languages is

• culture

• culture region

• continent

• interdependence

The economic, political, social dependence of culture regions on one another is

• culture

• interdependence

• geography

• history

A large continuous mass of land is

• latitude

• longitude

• continent

• migrate