SOCIAL STUDIES REVIEW:

 

Use the terms to complete the sentences (magna, rain shadow, tributaries, irrigation, metropolitan area)

 

Lava is ___________________or molten rock, that has reached Earth's surface.

 

Together a river and its ________________make up a river system.

 

People have developed systems of _____________to create forms in desert area.

 

The Tokyo _________________includes the city and the suburbs that surround it.

 

Because it is in a _____________, the land east of the Sierra Nevada is much drier than the land to the west of the mountains.

 

Answer the questions:

 

What forces cause the weathering of land?

Which is the world's largest ocean?

How does Antarctica's environment make it hard for people to live there?

How does vegetation affect where people choose to settle?

How is a pastorial society different from a farming society? Explain.

How did early harders and farmers use natural resources?

How are the terms civilization and complex society related?

How did having an oasis help Jericho succeed?

Where do most experts beleive the first modern humans lived?

Why was Hammurabi's code important to the Babylonian Empire?

How did the Nile River affect the development of Egyptian civilization?

How did the yearly flooding of the Nile River help shape the economy of Egypt?

In what ways has early Chinese civilization influenced Chinese people today?

Who was the last king of the Shang dynasty?

Why was the Olmec civilization called the "mother civilization"of the Americas?

 

 

Define words:

extinct, artifact, pastoral society, oasis, territory, monarchy, cuneiform, taxation, merchant, bureaucracy, decree, afterlife, dynasty.