8th Grade Social Studies 1st Semester Exam

What are the different types of Movement?

• adapt, modify, depend

• absolute, relative

• 
  human, physical

• goods, ideas, people

What are the different types of region?

• Physical, Human

• Absolute, Relative

• Depend, Adapt, Modify

• 
  People, Goods, Ideas

Absolute location is:

• general

• describing where a place is located using cardinal directions

• not used on GPS

• when latitude and longitude coordinates are used to show where a place is located 

Relative location is:

• 
  the use of latitude and longitude coordinates

• 
  a general location using cardinal directions

• Given by GPS

• a specific place

Glory, Gold, Growth, and God are reasons for -

• 
  mercantilist trade

• 
  self government

• representative government

• European exploration

What country founded the 13 colonies?

• 
  France

• The Netherlands

• 
  Spain

• Great Britain

What religious group founded the New England colonies?

• Puritans

• 
  Catholics

• Quakers

A crop that is grown to sell, rather than to be used by the grower.

• Monarch

• Gold Crop

• Cash Crop

• Profit

The capture, enslavement, buying. and selling of people for profit.

• Slave trade

• Proft

• 
  Triangular Trade Route

• Cash Crop

• Venetian explorer who visited the court of Kublai Khan

• One of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China

• Travels increased the interest of Europeans in the lands of the East

Who is described above?

• Marco Polo

• Vasco da Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Christopher Columbus