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Cycle test Social Studies 6th

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 3hrs 55mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Import means
a)
buying goods from another country
b)
selling goods to another country
c)
only making one kind of product
2.
Export means
a)
buying goods from another country
b)
selling goods to another country
c)
only making one kind of product
3.

What is free trade?

a)

Trade reflects the impact of

specialisation and exchange rates

b)

This is international trade free from

artificial barriers such as import tariffs,

quotas and other trade barriers

c)

This is international trade with artificial barriers such as import tariffs, quotas and other trade barriers

4.
What type of economic system is based on customs and beliefs?
a)
Market
b)
Mixed
c)
Traditional
d)
command
5.
The four types of economic systems are: 
a)
Traditional, Command, Mixed, & Market
b)
Traditional, Command, Combined, & Market
c)
Communism, Capitalism, Free Market, and Macroeconomics
d)
Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Individual, and Traditional.
6.

What is a Tariff?

a)

A tax on imported and exported goods

b)

A price marked on goods

c)

Profit made from manufactured goods

7.
Which is a Natural Resource
a)
Sunlight
b)
Computers
c)
Cars
d)
Roofs
8.
Anything from nature that living things use is called a ______________.
a)
energy
b)
pollution
c)
food
d)
natural resource
9.
Which are ways we use fossil fuels?
a)
eating and drinking
b)
drinking and bathing
c)
paper and building
d)
cars and heat
10.
Which type of alternative energy source is shown in this picture?
a)
Wind
b)
Solar
c)
Hydroelectric
d)
Geothermal
11.
Developed or developing?
a)
Developed
b)
Developing
12.
Developed or developing?
a)
Developed
b)
Developing
13.
Developed or developing?
a)
Developed
b)
Developing
14.
Developed or developing?
a)
Developed
b)
Developing
15.

Which is a characteristic of a developed country?

a)

Many people

b)

great weather

c)

advanced public transportation

d)

many motorbikes

e)

less animals

16.

This economic system is controlled by the government.

a)

Traditional

b)

Command (Communism)

c)

Free Market

17.
Sarah would like to become a doctor when she grows up.  Unfortunately, she lives in a country where her job will be decided for her by the government.
a)
Traditional
b)
Free Market
c)
Mixed
d)
Command
18.
In this type of economy, the individual decides who to sell their products to.  
a)
Traditional 
b)
Mixed 
c)
Market
d)
Command
19.
What type of government has a king or queen that holds all the power?
a)
Monarchy
b)
Dictatorship
c)
Direct Democracy
d)
Republic
20.
What type of government does the following list describe?    There is one ruler.  The ruler usually inherited power.  The ruler passed on leadership to his son.
a)
Democracy
b)
Monarchy
c)
Oligarchy
d)
Tyranny
21.
The word democracy means:
a)
rule of one
b)
rule by few
c)
rule by the people
d)
rule by the wealthy
22.
A ______________ is a ruler who has complete power over a country.
a)
Republican
b)
Nazi
c)
Dictator
d)
Constitutional Monarch
23.

Which type of government do the people have the most control?

a)

dictatorship

b)

monarchy

c)

democracy

24.

What is a form of government ruled by one person who usually seized power through unlawful means?

a)

Dictatorship

b)

Oligarchy

c)

Democracy

d)

Parliamentary

25.

What is a cultural region?

a)

a section of the Earth where people share similar way of life such as language, religion, economic system and values.

b)

a geographical boundary between 2 different cultures

c)

An area of land that has 1 or more common characteristics

d)

belief, customs, institutions, technology and social structure

26.

The constant use of wifi and social media in the US and Canada is an example of which cultural characteristic?

a)

economic system

b)

social structure

c)

technology

d)

custom

27.

Cultural diffusion is

a)

a certain belief about a group of people

b)

how people worship a God in a culture

c)

the spread of a cultural trait from one group to another

d)

science

28.

What Element of Culture is This?

a)

Religion

b)

Creative Expression

c)

Food

d)

Government

29.

What Element of Culture is This?

a)

Government

b)

Creative Expression

c)

Food

d)

Religion

30.

What Element of Culture is This?

a)

Food

b)

Religion

c)

Creative Expression

d)

Education

31.

What Element of Culture is This?

a)

Food

b)

Religion

c)

Creative Expression

d)

Government

32.

What Element of Culture is This?

a)

Food

b)

History

c)

Creative Expression

d)

Religion

33.

What element of Culture is This?

a)

Religion

b)

Customs and Beliefs

c)

Technology

d)

Food

34.
Non renewable resources are
a)
Materials that are found on Earth that people use.
b)
Rock that contains metal
c)
Fuels that formed from the remains of things that lived millions of years ago
d)
Resources that cannot be replaced quickly enough to keep from running out. 
35.

Competition and profit motive are important characteristics of a:

a)

command economy

b)

traditional economy

c)

market economy

d)

socialist economy