SS Q1 Exam Review

What is the term for a people's identity and way of life, including customs, food, dwellings, family structure, ethics, and health/medicine?

• Culture
• Religion
• Race
• Nationality

Indigenous Americans had to ______ to their environment. (Term meaning to adjust)

• adapt
• protest
• ignore
• resist

What is an area where people share a similar culture and language?

• Country
• Continent
• Planet
• Cultural Region

What is the name of the treeless plain in the arctic regions with very cold winters and summers?

• Savanna
• Tundra
• Desert
• Rainforest

The ______ includes all physical surroundings in a place, such as land, water, animals, plants, and climate.

• Race
• Society
• Environment
• Capitol

What is a colony?

• The exchange of goods, ideas, and diseases between the Old and New World.
• Spanish conquerors who claimed land in the Americas.
• A group of people who settle in a new land under their native country's rule.
• French fur traders in North America.

What is a charter?

• A document that grants permission to establish a colony
• A document that outlines the rules of a colony
• A document that declares independence from a country
• A document that establishes a system of government

What does democratic mean?

• A system of government ruled by a king or queen
• A system of government ruled by religious leaders
• A system of government where power is held by the people
• A system of government ruled by a dictator

What was the Mayflower Compact?

• A document that established the first English colony in America
• A document that outlined the rules and laws for the Plymouth Colony
• A document that declared independence from England
• A document that established a system of government for the New England colonies

What is mercantilism?

• A system of government ruled by merchants
• A system of government ruled by the military
• An economic theory that promotes exporting more than importing
• An economic theory that promotes equal trade between nations