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Understanding Social Studies
A. Content Vocabulary
Directions: Select a vocabulary term from the box that best answers each
question below. Write the terms in the space provided.
century
decade
relative chronology
absolute chronology
primary source
secondary source
bias
urban
rural
absolute location
relative location
age distribution
growth rate
federalism
republic
popular sovereignty
legislative
executive
judicial
citizen
free enterprise
generalization
inference
plagiarism
citation
5. A
and
6. When writing a research paper, always avoid
to give credit for your source materials.
use a
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people.
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to another event.
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B. Academic Vocabulary
Directions: Select the part of speech that the underlined words represent.
15. Sam organized his baseball card collection into categories by player
positions.
a. noun
b. verb
c. adjective
16. When Laura included a quote in her report, she made sure she gave
proper attribution to the author.
a. noun
b. verb
c. adjective
17. When Aleksander moved to a new country, he found the culture to be much
different from his home.
a. noun
b. verb
c. adjective
18. Suki thought it was difficult to differentiate between the black shirt and
the navy blue shirt.
a. noun
b. verb
c. adjective
19. The government of Texas does not have the authority to make laws for
the entire nation.
a. noun
b. verb
c. adjective
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25. entity
26. differentiate
27. century
29. landform
33. federalism
34. diversity
35. immigrate
36. generalization
37. inference
38. plagiarism
39. citation
24. predict