Vocabulary Social Studies

process created to manage the production, consumption, and distribution of goods and services

• barter

• political system

• modify

• economic system

Process created to govern societies

• adapt

• political system

• modify

• economic system

deforestation

• not planted by man.

• clear an area of forests.

• replant with trees.

• things such as chairs, desks, tables, etc.

A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and constituent political units.

• Federalism

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Anarchy

The study of the rights and duties of citizenship.

• Economics

• Civics

• Geography

• Sociology

A large-scale public exhibition or show, often international in scope.

• Festival

• Fair

• Exposition

• Carnival

The movement of people from one place to another with the intentions of settling temporarily or permanently in the new location.

• Migration

• Tourism

• Nomadism

• Pilgrimage

A system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.

• Philosophy

• Ideology

• Theology

• Psychology

The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

• Globalization

• Industrialization

• Urbanization

• Colonization

A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Feudalism

• Mercantilism