kenna's social studies 6wks
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- a major responsibilitty of a democratic citizen is
- voting
- the u.s. is a ?
- representive democracy
- waking up to rock music putting on jeans and celebrating the 4th of july are all part of the american
- culture
- some people migrate because they are pulled by
- opportunities for a better life
- the government of great brittain is
- a constitutional monarchy
- communism is an example of
- command economy
- refuges leave their homeland to
- escape war or unjust goverments
- democracy is a form of
- limited government
- the rule of saddam hussein in iraq is an example of
- a dictatorship
- the earths crust is made up of
- many plates that move
- the four major oceans are the the pacific ,atlantic,indian,and
- artic
- the study of earths land water plants and animals is part of
- physical geography
- places near the equator are in the
- lower latitudes
- about 70 percent of the earths cruct is
- water
- the warming of the earth from the build up of gases in the air is
- the green house effect
- tectonic plates floate on top of
- liquid rock
- as alltitude increases
- air temp.decreses
- when two continental plates crash they create...
- high mountain ranges
- most of the earth fresh water is found in
- glaciers
- the tropics are areas that lie near
- the equator
- movement of people from farms to villages to cities
- urbanization
- the people who make the laws must obey them
- limited gorverment
- benifits and protections garenteed to you by law
- rights
- share a common language history and origin
- ethnic groups
- duties you owe to your fellow citizens
- responsibilities
- study of th einteraction of people and society
- social sciantists
- differs from the people with the most power and wealth in the region
- minority grups
- the rulers can do whatever they want
- unlimited goverment
- practices handed down from the past
- customs
- group of satilites traveling around the earth
- global postioning system
- flat areas at higher elevations
- plateaus
- huge slabs of rock
- plates
- computer softwareused to map the earth
- geographic information systems
- place swhereplants and animals are dependant upon one another and their particul surroundings for survival
- ecosystems
- steep sided lowlands that rivers have cut
- canyons
- natural surroundings
- enviorment
- low lying stretches of flat or gently rolling land
- plains
- individual fetures of the land like mountains or valleys
- land forms
- cracks in the earths crust
- faults