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social studies gr 6 academic vocab 42 words

December 31, 2009 By leslie W.

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  1. agriculture
    the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
  2. capital
    one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
  3. chronology
    the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events
  4. climate
    the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time
  5. civilization
    a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)
  6. conqueror
    someone who is victorious by force of arms
  7. constitution
    the act of forming or establishing something
  8. culture
    all the knowledge and values shared by a society
  9. diversity
    noticeable heterogeneity
  10. economy
    the system of production and distribution and consumption
  11. environment
    the totality of surrounding conditions
  12. erosion
    (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
  13. ethnicity
    an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties
  14. geography
    study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation
  15. hemisphere
    half of a sphere
  16. import
    bring in from abroad
  17. export
    sell or transfer abroad
  18. irrigation
    supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc
  19. latitude
    an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
  20. longitude
    the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich
  21. map
    a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
  22. elements
    violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements)
  23. scale
    an ordered reference standard
  24. key
    metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
  25. legend
    a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
  26. border
    the boundary of a surface
  27. projection
    the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
  28. migration
    the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
  29. immigration
    migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
  30. natural resources
    resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature
  31. physical
    involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit
  32. human
    any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
  33. characteristic
    typical or distinctive
  34. primary
    of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
  35. secondary
    being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate
  36. source
    the place where something begins, where it springs into being
  37. scarcity
    a small and inadequate amount
  38. surplus
    a quantity much larger than is needed
  39. society
    an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
  40. urban
    relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area
  41. rural
    living in or characteristic of farming or country life
  42. vegetation
    the process of growth in plants