SMS 6th Grade Social Studies Vocab

An object made or used by people in the past.

• artifact

• geography

• technology

• resource

The way a region or country uses resources to produce and sell or trade goods and services to meet people’s needs and wants.

• artifact

• geography

• economy

• scribe

The study of the features of Earth’s surface.

• artifact

• irrigation

• resource

• geography

A group in a society that is ranked by factors such as wealth, property, and rights.

• social class

• scribe

• authroity

• citizen

A person who writes.

• social class

• scribe

• citizen

• authority

The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes.

• technolgoy

• resource

• geography

• economy

Able to grow crops well.

• fertile

• irrigation

• geography

• scribe

The government or controlling power.

• citizen

• social class

• authority

• artifact

A means of supplying land with water.

• resource

• geography

• fertile

• irrigation

Something that can be used to fulfill a need.

• resource

• technology

• artifact

• fertile