Mr. Cook 7th
Grade Social Studies Study Hints!
1. Be sure to take home
old quizzes from our folder and tool kits. Vocabulary lists and other materials are helpful too!
2. Look at the chapter
summaries and reviews for chapters 1-4
3. Make sure you can do these things!
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Tell what archeology is
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Explain the difference
between geography and history
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Identify and describe
the five themes of Geography
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Be able to define and
use the following terms:
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Culture, environment,
cultural patterns, climate
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Give the steps of the
Social Scientific Method
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Identify the main
cultural areas and their dwellings and main source of food
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Describe families using
the terms:
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Nuclear, extended,
matrilineal, patrilineal
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Label the oceans and
continents of the world
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Give examples of how
cultures adapt to their environment
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Name the five Iroquois
tribes
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Tell what the following
is…..
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Longhouse, astrolabe,
adobe, latitude
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Identify the lands
claimed by Spain, France, Holland, and England in the New World
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Tell why each of the
following were important
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Magellan, Columbus,
Ponce de Leon, Hiawatha, Deganawidah, Cortes, Champlain, Vasco da Gama,
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Describe the reasons why
Spain and France established colonies in the New World
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Give examples of the
Columbian Exchange
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Tell why the Laws of the
Indies were important.
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Put the following events
in order:
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The founding of
Jamestown, the exploration of the ST. Lawrence River, the Crusades, the writing
of the Mayflower Compact
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For the 13 English
Colonies-
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Identify them on a map
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Know the location of
Plymouth, Jamestown, and New Amsterdam
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Know the main economic
and cultural patterns of the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies
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Tell what a charter is
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Describe the Mayflower
Compact, who wrote it, and why
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Know important people
and groups of the 13 colonies!
Other things to study: