Social Studies Terminology

An object made by a human being; we can use them to study the past.

• artifact

• antiquity

• profact

• thingy

A _ source is created by a person who experienced a historical event first-hand.

• tridary

• secondary

• primary

• quadary

• A _ source is created by a person who has researched a historical event, but didn’t actually experience it first-hand.

• primary

• secondary

• dary

• 2

A person who studies the past by researching and writing about it.

• historian

• ophthalmologist

• human biologist

• educator

A person who studies the past by digging up and examining artifacts or other historical remains.

• volcanologist

• dentist

• paleontologist

• archaeologist

_ is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments

• Geography

• Government

• History

• Economics

The system or group of people in power over a community or state.

• geography

• history

• government

• economics

The study of the past is _.

• history

• geography

• economics

• government

The systems humans have created to meet people's needs and wants, usually involving money, trade, and allocation of resources.

• government

• economics

• history

• geography

People in a large, organized community.

• town

• city

• society

• social pyramid