Unit 1 Social Studies Vocabulary

The way a nations people use natural resources, money, and knowledge to produce goods and services.

• Scarcity

• Economy

• Renewable Resource

A treeless plain in Arctic areas

• Canyon

• Tributary

• Tundra

A low wet area such as a swamp or marsh

• Tributary

• Wetland

• Tundra

A giant sheet of ice

• Glacier

• Prairie

• Canyon

What is this picture an example of?

• Prairie

• Megalopolis

• Canyon

Happens when there is not enough of a resource to make all the products people want.

• Renewable Resource

• Megalopolis

• Scarcity

A river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake

• Navigable

• Wetland

• Tributary

An imaginary line that runs North and South along the highest points of the Rocky Mountains. Rivers flow West or East from this line.

• Prairie

• Continental Divide

• Canyon

Describes power generated by falling water.

• Tundra

• Irrigation

• Hydroelectric Power

Wide or deep enough to allow passage of ships

• Navigable

• Tributary

• Canyon

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7