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Chapter 1 Study Guide

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6^th Grade Social Studies – Mr. Hetherington
U.S. Census Assignment

Using the attached U.S. Census Bureau report, answer the following questions based on the latest U.S. Census data.

What percentage of the U.S. Population is female? ___________________

What percentage of the U.S. Population is Hispanic or Latino? _____________________

How many homes are there in the United States? ________________________

According to the census report, almost everyone who graduates from high school goes on to graduate from college with a Bachelor’s degree or higher. True or False? Explain and support your answer with information from the report.

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Your friend’s mother drives 30 miles to work every morning and takes 40 minutes to get there. Is her drive time longer or shorter than the average travel time for an American worker? Explain and support your answer.
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Does your family have more or less people in your household than the average household in the US? Explain and support your answer.
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Make-up your own question from the census information.

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Now answer your question in a sentence, again using the census information.

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.Data from the U.S. Census Website at http://www.census.gov/

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6^th Grade Social Studies – Mr. Hetherington

Technology and Modern Life – Class Assignment

Review the time line on page 23 and choose (in your opinion) the five most important inventions or discoveries. List them below:

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Place the above inventions in chronological order (date order from earliest to most recent) in the chart below.

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Which invention listed above do you think most changed the way people lived? Explain your thinking below.

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Brainstorm a list of recent discoveries or inventions with your group. Choose and list the three that you feel are the most important.

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Which recent invention do you consider the most important to society? Explain your thinking below.

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Chapter 2 – Section 2  Physical Geography

Forces – The Earth’s Crust
 

The earths crust is made up of tectonic plates, huge slabs of rock up to 20 miles thick that float on top of hot molten rock called magma.
 

If two continental plates smash against each other, the collision produces high mountain ranges.

If a continental plate and an ocean plate move against each other, the continental plate slides over the denser ocean plate often causing a volcanic eruption.
 

When plates move alongside each other, faults or cracks are formed. Earthquakes often occur near these faults.
 

Divergent fault – When two plates are pulling away from each other. An example of this is seafloor spreading, where magma pushes through a crack in the crust at the mid-ocean ridge and forms new sea floor while pushing the continents apart.
Convergent fault – When two plates collide, pushing against each other.
Transform boundary – When two plates move alongside of each other.
 

Landforms:
Plains – low lying stretches of flat or gently rolling land.
Plateaus – flat lands that have higher elevation
Canyons – steep-sided lowlands that rivers have cut through a plateau
 

Bodies of Water
 

About 70% of the earth’s surface is water.
 

The five major oceans are The Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Southern Oceans
 

Almost 98% of the world’s water is salt water contained in the oceans. The remaining 2% is freshwater.
 

80% of the worlds freshwater is frozen in glaciers (giant sheets of ice located on land.)
Most of the remaining freshwater is groundwater. There is over 10 times as much groundwater as there is water in rivers and lakes.
 

Aquifer – underground rock layers that groundwater flows through.
 

Climate – the usual, predictable pattern of weather in an area over a long period of time.
 

The Tropics – areas near the Equator that lie between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. These areas are warm because they receive the most direct angle of the suns rays.
 

Altitude (Elevation) also affects temperature. The temperature drops as you go to a higher elevation.

Greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide – CO2 and water vapor) prevent some of the earths heat energy from escaping into space. An increase in these gases will cause the overall temperature of the earth to rise.
 

Cutting down forests can cause less rainfall due to less evaporation from leaves and branches. 
 

Geography
 

1.     Physical Geography – study of the physical features of the earth- land, water, plants and animals
2.     Human Geography – the study of people- where they live, how they change and how they are influenced by their environment.
 

Geographer’s study:
·        Physical characteristics of a place – where is something located? What is it like?
·        Human Systems- Population (how many people live there,) population density (how crowded,) type of government, religions and type of work.
·        How people interact with their environment (natural surroundings.)
·        Regions- areas with common characteristics
 

GPS – Global Positioning System – Group of satellites used by a receiver to pinpoint an exact location on the earth.
 

GIS – Geographic Information System – special program that allows geographers to learn about a place by combining and overlapping information layers on a computerized map.   Example – Google Earth