social studies vocabulary

3. to make an idea or situation clear using relevant facts, details and ideas.
5. Factors, conditions that attract people to a migrate to a different area like fertile soil, a more desirable climate, safety, food and a natural water supply.
6. Geography is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments. Geographers explore both the physical properties of Earth’s surface and the human societies spread across it.
7. The surrounding conditions of the natural world including geography, climate, and resources.
9. to tell the facts or details about something specific.
11. Features, natural characteristic of Earth's surface, that include mountains, rivers, oceans, and lakes.
13. material object that remains from a culture like tools, bones, clothing, or pottery.
14. Factors, Reasons people leave an area that can include famine, drought, disease, natural disaster, and fear of an enemy.
15. to examine carefully and in detail in order to identify causes, key factors, significance and possible results.
18. facts, examples and sources used to support a claim.
19. Source, account provided after the fact by people who did not directly witness or participate in the event that include biographies, textbooks, encyclopedias, and newspapers.

1. Culture is an entire way of life including clothing, food, housing, tools, language, and even social habits, beliefs, and music.
2. Theory, Theory of how early man got to the Americas and settled civilizations.
4. to condense a text to its main points using your own words.
8. Resource, something that is found in nature and can be used by people. Examples include sun wind water plants animals soil stone minerals and fossil fuels.
9. talk or write about a topic in detail taking into account differences in opinions to demonstrate a deeper level of thinking.
10. Movement of people and animals from one location to another.
12. the general weather conditions of a region throughout the year, averaged over a series of years. Conditions include temperature air pressure humidity precipitation sunshine cloudiness and winds.
13. The act or process of changing to better fit a situation.
16. Source, firsthand information about people or events that can come from diary entries, unaltered video footage and photographs, autobiographies, interview transcripts, and eyewitness accounts.
17. an area or division of the country that has definable similar characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.