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Social Studies EOY Review

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How did Native Americans share about their lives?

a)

wrote songs

b)

wrote poems, stories, and legends

c)

wrote on clay

d)

took videos

2.

Which Native American region had teepees to help follow herds of buffalo for food and resources?

a)

Arctic

b)

Plains

c)

Northwest

d)

Southwest

3.

What did Native Americans use to make their shelters?

a)

animal skins, palmetto leaves, and adobe (clay)

b)

wood, sticks, hay

c)

deer hides, animal bones, cotton

d)

animal skins, dirt, and paper

4.

Why did European Explorer's come to North America (The New World)?

a)

God, Gold, Glory

b)

Gold, Goods, Give

c)

Goods, God, Gold

d)

Silver, land, learn about new people

5.

Who sponsored (paid for) the European Explorer's voyages?

a)

the people of the city

b)

the Kings and Queens of the country

c)

tax dollars

d)

they paid for the voyages themselves

6.

Which explorer explored the Mississippi River?

a)

Hernando De Soto

b)

Jacques Cartier

c)

John Cabot

d)

Henry Hudson

7.

What obstacle did ALL European Explorer's face?

a)

bad crew members

b)

mutiny (kicked off their ships)

c)

extremely cold weather

d)

rough seas because they had to sail to the new world in North America

8.

What did the Spanish want the explorer's to do in the new world?

a)

Spread Christianity

b)

find silver and spices

c)

make new friends and learn new things

d)

start the fur trade

9.

How did American Indians help early French explorers and settlers who came to North America?

a)

by cooperating with them in the fur trade

b)

by agreeing to join their Christian churches

c)

by showing them where to find gold and silver

d)

by teaching them how to grow cash crops

10.

What was the motivation for the New England colonies to be founded?

a)

Religious Freedom

b)

More Gold

c)

More Power

d)

More Land

11.

Which region was known for their ability to grow wheat and was a good location for trade because of the many harbors?

a)

Mid-Atlantic

b)

New England

c)

Southern

d)

Southernwest

12.

Which region was the most powerful and grew cash crops?

a)

Mid-Atlantic

b)

Southern

c)

New England

d)

Southwestern

13.

What is the special line of longitude (green line) that is at 0 degrees that gives the eastern and western hemisphere?

a)

equator

b)

prime meridian

c)

atlas

d)

compass

14.

What is the special line of latitude at 0 degrees (red line) gives the northern and southern hemispheres?

a)

prime meridian

b)

equator

c)

compass

d)

longitude

15.

Which mountain range is labeled X?

a)

Rocky

b)

Appalachian

c)

Andes

d)

Everest

16.

Which mountain range is labeled Y?

a)

Rocky

b)

Appalachian

c)

Andes

d)

Everest

17.

Which of the cities labeled on the map is located closest to 40°N, 110°W?

a)

UT

b)

CO

c)

AZ

d)

ID

18.

What river is labeled as 1?

a)

Rio Grande

b)

Colorado

c)

Ohio

d)

Mississippi

19.

What river is labeled as 3?

a)

Rio Grande

b)

Colorado

c)

Ohio

d)

Mississippi

20.

Who is the leader of the national executive branch?

a)

president

b)

governor

c)

mayor

d)

sheriff

21.

Who is the leader of the state executive branch?

a)

president

b)

governor

c)

mayor

d)

sheriff

22.

What is in place so that one branch of the government does not become too powerful and have all the control?

a)

balance

b)

separation of powers

c)

checks

d)

division

23.

What type of government does the USA have that allows people to vote?

a)

monarchy

b)

free government

c)

democracy

d)

order

24.

How can you promote the common good?

a)

volunteering to pick up trash on the playground

b)

talking while doing your work

c)

buying a flashlight to help you see in the dark

d)

practicing for your soccer game so your family will be proud

25.

What branch of government writes, makes, and creates the laws?

a)

executive

b)

legislative

c)

judicial

d)

white house

26.

What branch interprets that the laws are just, fair, and constitutional?

a)

executive

b)

judicial

c)

legislative

d)

congress

27.

When the demand is high (people want it), but the supply is low, what will happen to the price of the good?

a)

increase

b)

decrease

c)

stay the same

d)

i don't know

28.

What is it called when you have to sacrifice one thing in order to benefit and get another thing?

a)

opportunity cost

b)

volunteering

c)

paying taxes

d)

trade

29.

Who would a business consider a human resource?

a)

someone who visits the business's store

b)

someone who returns a product to the business

c)

someone who works for the business (or their employee or staff)

d)

someone who buys the business's products

30.

What are capital resources?

a)

things that can be found in nature

b)

things that are man-made and are used to produce goods

c)

people who help to make goods

d)

people who start businesses