Year 10 Social Studies – Quick Definitions
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Flashcards providing comprehensive question-and-answer coverage of Year 10 Social Studies key terms, spanning Mapping Conventions, Fair Trade, the Holocaust, and the Global Commons.
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What are mapping conventions?
Agreed rules used to make maps clear.
What is a continent?
One of Earth’s seven large landmasses.
What is an ocean?
A very large area of salt water.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The 0∘ longitude line.
What are the tropics?
The region between the two tropic lines.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
The line at 23.5∘ north.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
The line at 23.5∘ south.
What is a physical map?
A map showing natural features, like mountains and rivers.
What is a political map?
A map showing countries, borders and cities.
What is the purpose of a map key?
Explains the symbols and colours on a map.
What is the Equator?
The 0∘ latitude line, dividing north and south.
What is the International Dateline?
A line near 180∘ longitude where the date changes.
What are coordinates?
Numbers used to locate a place on Earth.
In mapping, what does relief describe?
The height and shape of the land.
What does latitude measure?
Measures how far north or south a place is.
What does longitude measure?
Measures how far east or west a place is.
What are islands?
Areas of land surrounded by water.
What are the four hemispheres of Earth?
The four halves of Earth: Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western.
What do the letters in the mapping acronym FACKTS stand for?
Frame, Arrow, Colour, Key, Title, Scale.
What is Fair Trade?
Trade that aims to give workers fair pay and better conditions.
What is trade?
Buying and selling goods or services.
What does it mean to be interdependent?
Depending on each other.
What is globalisation?
Countries becoming more connected through trade and communication.
What is Free Trade?
Trade with few or no restrictions between countries.
What is the primary sector of an economy?
Collecting raw materials, such as farming and mining.
What is the secondary sector of an economy?
Making products from raw materials.
What is the tertiary sector of an economy?
Providing services, such as teaching or healthcare.
What is a sweatshop?
A workplace with poor conditions and low pay.
What is a cooperative?
A group that works together and shares resources.
What is subsistence farming?
Growing food mainly to feed yourself and your family.
What are cash crops?
Crops grown mainly to sell for money.
What does it mean to import?
To buy goods from another country.
What does it mean to export?
To sell goods to another country.
What is equity?
Giving people what they need to have fair opportunities.
What is fairness?
Treating people in an honest and just way.
What is marketing?
Promoting products to encourage people to buy them.
What is a developing country?
A country with lower average incomes and less developed services.
What is a developed country?
A country with higher average incomes and well-developed services.
What is exploitation?
Taking unfair advantage of someone.
What is mass production?
Making large amounts of the same product.
Who is a consumer?
A person who buys or uses goods and services.
What is a resource?
Something useful that people get from the environment.
Who was Adolf Hitler?
The Nazi leader of Germany from 1933 to 1945.
What is antisemitism?
Hatred or prejudice against Jewish people.
What was Auschwitz?
A Nazi camp complex where over one million people were murdered.
What was a concentration camp?
A place where the Nazis imprisoned people.
What is dehumanisation?
Treating people as if they are less than human.
What is discrimination?
Treating someone unfairly because of who they are.
What is eugenics?
The false idea that humans can be improved by controlling reproduction.
What was euthanasia in the context of Nazi Germany?
In Nazi Germany, the killing of people with disabilities or illnesses without their consent.
What was an extermination camp?
A camp designed for the mass murder of people.
What was the Final Solution?
The Nazi plan to murder all Jews in Nazi-controlled Europe.
What is genocide?
The deliberate attempt to destroy a group of people.
What was a ghetto during the Holocaust?
An area where Jewish people were forced to live.
What was the Holocaust?
The Nazi persecution and murder of six million Jewish people.
What was Kristallnacht?
The 1938 Nazi attacks on Jewish homes, shops and synagogues.
What does liberation mean in the context of the Holocaust?
The freeing of people from Nazi camps.
What was the Nazi Party?
The political party led by Adolf Hitler.
What is persecution?
Cruel or unfair treatment because of a person's identity or beliefs.
What is a pogrom?
A violent attack on a particular group, especially Jewish people.
What is a police state?
A country controlled through police power, fear and surveillance.
What is prejudice?
An unfair opinion formed without knowing the facts.
What is propaganda?
Information used to influence people's opinions.
What is racism?
Prejudice or unfair treatment because of race or ethnicity.
What is a refugee?
A person forced to leave their country for safety.
What was resistance in the context of Nazi rule?
Actions taken to oppose or fight against the Nazis.
What are stereotypes?
Oversimplified beliefs about a group of people.
What are the Global Commons?
Natural areas or resources shared by the world.
What is pollution?
Harmful waste or substances added to the environment.
What is global warming?
The rise in Earth's average temperature.
What is climate change?
Long-term changes in Earth's climate and weather.
What do the SPENT factors stand for?
Social, Political, Economic, Natural and Technological factors.
What is mitigation in the context of climate change?
Actions that reduce the causes of climate change.
What is adaptation in the context of climate change?
Actions that help people cope with climate change.
What is a carbon footprint?
The greenhouse gases caused by a person, activity or product.
What is collective responsibility?
A shared duty to protect something.
What does develop mean in the context of the Global Commons?
To build on or use an area or resource.
What does preserve mean?
To protect something and keep it safe.
What is a renewable resource?
A resource that nature can replace.
What is a non-renewable resource?
A resource that cannot be replaced quickly.
What is cause and effect?
A cause makes something happen; the effect is what happens.
What is sustainability?
Using resources without harming future generations' ability to use them.
What is a solution?
An action or idea that helps fix a problem.
What is plastic?
A man-made material used to make many products.
What does scale refer to when evaluating issues?
The level an issue affects: an area, a country or the world (local, national, global).