SSSS (Social Studies Study Set)

Cartography

Scale

Region

Latitude and longitude

Peninsula

Projections

Pangaea

Indigenous

Plate tectonics

Earthquakes

Climate v. weather

Gender v. sex

Gender roles

Descriptions of climate zones

Global warming/climate change/GHGs

World’s most valuable commodities

World population deprived of food, clean water

Shantytowns, slums, barrios, etc.

Developed v. developing nations (MDC, LDC)

Sustainable development

J curve 

Extraction

ISI

Quotas

Primary, secondary, tertiary, quarternary

Formal v. informal economy

Democratization, factors of

Measures of well-being, including GNI (in many sources: GDP), HDI

push/pull

Urbanization, characteristics of

Gender roles

Double day

Culture, values

Climates

NAFTA (in the text - USMCA now), free trade agreements

Tariffs

Free trade v. fair trade

Livability of a city - factors include: access to quality transportation, well-maintained parks, and quality schools 

Gentrification

Nuclear family - father, mother, biological children (had been dominant in U.S. but has declined to less than half - around a quarter)

Extended family

Middle and South American climate zones/temperature-altitude zones

Amazon rainforest

El Nino

Aztecs, Incas, Mayans

Treaty of Tordesillas

Export processing zones

Mercantilism

Privatization

Maquiladoras

Remittances

War on drugs, cartels

Brain drain

Machismo, marianismo

Roman Catholicism

Evangelical Protestantism

Liberation theology

Protestant Reformation

Peninsula

Nuclear power

Industrial Revolution

Age of Exploration

Cold War

Sphere of Influence

Capitalism (market economy)

Socialism, communism (command economy)

European Union, including membership requirements

Subsidy

Population pyramids (different shapes)

Assimilation v. acculturation

United Kingdom/Great Britain (who is in U.K.?)

World’s most popular tourist destination - region

Geography of the Netherlands

World’s largest country

post-Soviet states

Iron Curtain

Fall of Soviet Union

Chernobyl

Glasnost, perestroika

Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin 

Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Putin

Conflict in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Chechnya, Crimea

Coup d’etat

Color revolutions

Russian press freedom

Russian population pyramid