Social Studies Terms

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A group's customs, art and way of life (7)
  2. 5. An arbitrary sign that has acquired a conventional significance (6)
  3. 7. A society in an advanced state of social development (12)
  4. 10. The angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich (9)
  5. 11. The 3rd planet from the sun (5)
  6. 13. A large mass of land projecting into a body of water (9)
  7. 15. A group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession (9)

Down

  1. 1. The number of inhabitants in a given place (10)
  2. 2. To move from one country or region to another and settle there (7)
  3. 3. Migration into a place (11)
  4. 6. The natural world around us (11)
  5. 8. An imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator (8)
  6. 9. Tool for weighing things; also a set of musical notes (5)
  7. 12. An imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north (7)
  8. 14. A man-made object taken as a whole (8)
  9. 15. Accepted or habitual practice (plural) (7)