Social Studies Study Guide For Chapter 1
1. A social scientist studies how people live in groups.
2. The kind of information an economist would look for when studying the economy of a community is the way people use resources to meet their needs and wants.
3. An example of an item that would be considered a need would be clothes.
4. A subject that a geographer studies would be natural and human features of Earth’s surface.
5. An example of a human feature would be a house.
6. The main job of the government is to make and carry out rules and laws.
7. The social scientist who would be the most interested in your great-aunt’s diary would be a historian.
8. A political scientist who is a social scientist would ask the following question: Who is in charge?
9. Archaeologists study objects used in the past to discover things about the past.
2. The kind of information an economist would look for when studying the economy of a community is the way people use resources to meet their needs and wants.
3. An example of an item that would be considered a need would be clothes.
4. A subject that a geographer studies would be natural and human features of Earth’s surface.
5. An example of a human feature would be a house.
6. The main job of the government is to make and carry out rules and laws.
7. The social scientist who would be the most interested in your great-aunt’s diary would be a historian.
8. A political scientist who is a social scientist would ask the following question: Who is in charge?
9. Archaeologists study objects used in the past to discover things about the past.
The picture refers to the following:
10. An economist would be interested in talking to the children because they are selling a service to meet people’s wants and needs.
11. The following items in the picture are artifacts: computer, table, shirt, and paper.
12. The trees in the background are natural features because trees grow in nature; they are not made by people.
13. Possible questions a geographer may ask about the picture are as follows: Where does this scene take place? Where did the computers come from?
14. One reason a history museum might save a copy of this picture so that people in the future can see what life was like today.
10. An economist would be interested in talking to the children because they are selling a service to meet people’s wants and needs.
11. The following items in the picture are artifacts: computer, table, shirt, and paper.
12. The trees in the background are natural features because trees grow in nature; they are not made by people.
13. Possible questions a geographer may ask about the picture are as follows: Where does this scene take place? Where did the computers come from?
14. One reason a history museum might save a copy of this picture so that people in the future can see what life was like today.