Study the 5 strands of social studies for your exam. This guide covers history, geography, civics and government, economics, and culture.
Q: geography
Answer: the study of people, places and the environment-longitude and latitude-physical features (landforms, oceans)-climate
Q: culture
Answer: the beliefs, customs, laws, art and ways of living of a group of people-arts and recreation-food, dress, and greetings-languages-religions and traditions
Q: history
Answer: a record of the past-people who changed society-events that changed the way people live today-primary source-secondary source
Q: governments
Answer: the people and groups within a society that have the authority to make laws to make sure they are carried out and to settle disagreements about them-citizen participation-type of governments-personal freedom-structure of the government
Q: economics
Answer: the study of how people manage their scare (limited)resources by producing exchanging and using goods and services-entrepreneurs-natural, capital, and human resources-trade barriers, money, exchange and rates- economic systems: traditional, market, command and mixed