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Fall Mid-Terms

What to Study

7^th Grade Social Studies

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Review all Tests and Quizzes

Map Reading Skills – A1

Know longitude and latitude, Compass Rose, Scale, Legend, etc.

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5 Themes

Titles, what they are, and why they are useful

Technology

GPS & GIS

Jobs involved with Geography

CHAPTER 1

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Vocabulary Words

Globe
Geomorphology
Urban Planner
Climatologist
Location Analyst
Surveyor
Urban & Rural
Landsat
Cartographer

CHAPTER 1

Spatial
Location
Place
Region

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Know the difference between weathering and erosion.

The Hydrologic Cycle. P. 37

Drainage Basin

Solstice and Equinox

Weather and Climate

CHAPTER 2

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Earth’s angle tilt.

Vegetation regions

Savanna
Desert
Forests
Grasslands

Global Warming

CHAPTER 2

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Greenhouse effect

Desertification

CHAPTER 2

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Vocabulary Words

Magma
Continent
Tectonic Plates
Earthquake
Ring of Fire
Volcano
Weathering
Erosion
Sediment

CHAPTER 2

Glacier
Continental Shelf
Plateau
Landforms
Emissions
Sustainable

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Population Growth

Rate of natural increase.

Population Density

Push & Pull Factor

Internal & External Migration

Effects of Migration

CHAPTER 3

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CHAPTER 3

Economic Systems

Traditional
Command
Market
Mixed

Economic Development

Developing
Developed

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CHAPTER 3

Government Types

Representative Democracy
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Dictatorship
Communism

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Vocabulary Words

Birth Rate
Death Rate
Demographer
Habitable lands
Migration
Immigration
Refugee
Persecution
Culture

CHAPTER 3

Diversity
Discrimination
Natural Resources
Economy
Imports
Exports
Citizen

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CHAPTER 4

Elements of Culture

Ethnic Group

How Culture is learned

Family, Media, Government, Religion

The Five Major World Religions

Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism.

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CHAPTER 4

Agricultural Revolution

Diffusion

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Vocabulary Words

Culture
Anthropologist
Religion
Language
Missionary
Innovation
Technology
Diffusion
Cultural Hearth

CHAPTER 4

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CHAPTER 5

Identify the 4 regions of the US.

Know the important physical features of each.

Northeast – Atlantic Ocean, Appalachian Mountains.

Midwest – Great Lakes, Mississippi River, Great Plains.

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CHAPTER 5

South – Piedmont, Everglades

West – Rocky Mountains, Continental Divide, Grand Canyon

Includes Alaska and Hawaii.

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CHAPTER 5

One theory as to how the people came to this continent is the Land Bridge.

Colonized by Spaniards, British, French, Dutch.

Africans brought by force to work as slaves.

The US declared their independence from Great Britain in 1776.

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CHAPTER 5

Wrote the Constitution in 1787, ratified in 1789.

Set up a federal government.

A union of states with a central authority.

Divided power between three branches.

Legislative, Executive, Judicial.

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CHAPTER 5

Legislative – Senate & House of Representatives.

Makes the laws.

Executive – President

Enforces the laws.

Judicial – Courts

Makes sure the laws are constitutional.

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CHAPTER 5

Louisiana Purchase

Bought from France.

Civil War – 1861

Abraham Lincoln was President.
Won by the North.

Alaska purchased from Russia.

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CHAPTER 5

World War 1

1929 – The Great Depression.

1941 – World War 2

After World War 2, the US became a world power.

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CHAPTER 5

Official Language – None

Public Education

High literacy

Challenges of Diversity

Immigrants settle in ethnic groups.
Classrooms have many different languages.

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CHAPTER 5

US Economy is Free Enterprise.

Also know as a market economy.

Government is a representative democracy.

Also known as a republic.

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Vocabulary Words

Piedmont
Immigrant
Colony
Manifest Destiny
Cultural blending
Amendment
Import
Export

CHAPTER 5

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CHAPTER 6

• Canada has provinces and territories.
• Know the four regions.
•Map on page 159.
• First Nations
•Official languages – French and English.

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CHAPTER 6
• First Colonies
•Great Britain – 1497
• France – 1534
• Loyalists fled the US to Canada after the
Revolutionary War.
• 1867 ‐ Canada became a Dominion.
• 1931 – Canada granted independence.

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CHAPTER 6
•Royal Canadian Mounted Police
•More than 75% of Canadians live in cities.
•About 90% of Canadians live within 200
miles of the US border.
• Ice Hockey official winter sport.
• Lacrosse official summer sport.

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CHAPTER 6
• Canada’s government is a constitutional
monarchy.
• The system of government is a federal
system.
• Canada has a cabinet that advise the
prime minister.
• Canada’s economy is a free enterprise

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CHAPTER 6
• Canada’s government is a constitutional
monarchy.
• The system of government is a federal
system.
• Canada has a cabinet that advise the
prime minister.
• Canada’s economy is a free enterprise system

Ch. 6

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•Vocabulary Words
• Province
• Territory
• Tundra
• Hydroelectric
• Dominion
• Loyalists
• Separatist

Ch. 6

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Maps

US States – be able to label 25 States with a word bank
Canadian Provinces – be able to label all 13 Provinces with a word bank

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Now Study!

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