Social Studies 9
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the letter of the matching definition next to each term.
1. aboriginal
A. Manner of acting or controlling yourself
2. culture
B. The time yet to come
3. nation
C. United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet
4. mosaic
D. Study of the earth's surface
5. ancestry
E. Learning at school
6. identity
F. A numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed (plural)
7. language
G. The branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption
8. history
H. The discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical
9. geography
I. The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity
10. territory
J. The study of government of states and other ___ units
11. values
K. A group's customs, art and way of life
12. beliefs
L. Study of what happened in the past
13. behavior
M. System of faith and worship
14. politics
N. The perceptual experience of seeing
15. economics
O. People who make and enforce a country's laws
16. vision
P. An indigenous person who was born in a particular place
17. future
Q. A facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
18. technology
R. Art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass
19. arts
S. Paintings and drawings (plural)
20. education
T. The geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state
21. transportation
U. A covering designed to be worn on a person's body
22. religion
V. Any cognitive content held as true (plural)
23. government
W. A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
24. clothing
X. The descendants of one individual