1st Term Vocabulary

Question 0

Half of the world.

Answer 0

Hemisphere

Question 1

Any of the world’s main continuous expanses of land.

Answer 1

Continents

Question 2

Line at 0 degrees latitude on the Earth.

Answer 2

Equator

Question 3

Line at 0 degrees longitude on the Earth.

Answer 3

Prime Meridian

Question 4

Horizontal lines used to determine exact locations on the Earth’s surface.

Answer 4

Latitude

Question 5

Vertical lines used to determine exact locations on the Earth’s surface.

Answer 5

Longitude

Question 6

Shapes of the Earth such as mountains, plains, rivers, valleys, etc.

Answer 6

Landforms

Question 7

To move from one place to another to live.

Answer 7

Migrate

Question 8

A land bridge that existed during the Ice Ages that connected Asia and North America.

Answer 8

Beringia

Question 9

A person’s physical surroundings.

Answer 9

Environment

Question 10

A person’s way of life.

Answer 10

Culture

Question 11

Useful materials found in nature.

Answer 11

Natural Resources

Question 12

The transfer of food, ideas, people, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas. It began after Columbus’s discovery of the New World.

Answer 12

Columbian Exchange

Question 13

Spanish soldier-explorers.

Answer 13

Conquistador

Question 14

A new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land.

Answer 14

Colony

Question 15

A person who signed an agreement to work for a master for a period of time in exchange for their passage to the Americas. A temporary slave who was free after their debt had been paid off.

Answer 15

Indentured Servants

Question 16

Crops raised to be sold for money such as tobacco and cotton.

Answer 16

Cash Crops

Question 17

An elected group of lawmakers.

Answer 17

Assembly

Question 18

Form of government where people rule. Citizens elect representatives to create and carry out laws.

Answer 18

Democracy

Question 19

Lawmaking body of England.

Answer 19

Parliament

Question 20

A way to group people based on wealth, education, occupation, or inherited titles.

Answer 20

Social class

Question 21

The way a society organizes the manufacture and exchange of things of value.

Answer 21

Economy

Question 22

To make a formal demand or request.

Answer 22

Petition

Question 23

Group in colonial America that wanted to separate from Great Britain.

Answer 23

Patriots

Question 24

Group in colonial America that wanted to stay loyal to the British King.

Answer 24

Loyalists

Question 25

A nation that joins with another nation in some commotion effort, such as winning a war.

Answer 25

Ally

Question 26

The unjust use of government power.

Answer 26

Tyranny

Question 27

To take back or cancel a law.

Answer 27

Repeal

Question 28

To refuse to buy goods from a certain source, typically to make a political statement.

Answer 28

Boycott

Question 29

A small army made up of ordinary citizens who are available to fight in an emergency.

Answer 29

Militia

Question 30

Professional soldiers who will fight for anyone who will pay them.

Answer 30

Mercenaries

Question 31

A formal agreement between nations.

Answer 31

Treaty