3rd Grade Social Studies Unit 1-A Study Guide Practice

Circle North America

Circle Asia

Circle Australia

Circle South America

Circle Europe

Circle Africa

Circle Antartica

Why do historians study history?

Select all the three answers that are correct.

• so that we can learn about the past and understand the present

• so that we can learn from past mistakes and avoid them in the future

• so that we can understand art, inventions, literature, cultures and neighboring countries

• so that we can repeat things that went wrong and then find alternative actions

Match the following term with its definition.

• maps

• a firsthand account written or created by someone that experienced an event and is often created near the date of the event

• primary source

• items that are made by the Earth and are used to sustain life

• globe

• an account of an event written or expressed by someone who DID NOT experience the event; an account written long after an event happened

• natural resources

• a flat representation of an areas of land and/or bodies of water

• secondary source

• a three dimensional representation of the Earth, which includes representations of land, landforms, bodies of water, and lines of longitude and latitude

Match the following types of maps with the description of the information historians can find by analyzing the map.

• resource map

• this map shows boundaries and names of countries, cities, regions and states

• population map

• this map shows the amount of precipitation and/or average temperature of a given area over a designated period of time

• political map

• this map shows the features of land and landforms which includes: mountains, rivers, valleys, deserts, hills, forests, canyons, islands, peninsulas, plains and plateaus

• physical map

• shows the amount of people that live in an area; this information is found by conducting a census count

• climate/weather map

• this shows the natural items that are produced by the Earth or producers in a given area