Social Studies Test -- Study Guide

Study Guide (Chapter 23, Culture, and Social Justice) Students will be responsible for the information contained in this study guide. Supplemental material that may help to enhance understanding can be found in the textbook on pp. 640-641, questions 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16.

• North America is the third largest continent in the world
• Eastern Coastal Mexico has a climate that is similar to tropical Haiti
• Arable means fit or suitable for the planting of crops
• Acid rain is rain that has high amounts of acid caused by pollution
• Toussaint L’Ourverture was a leader in the Haitian fight for independence
• Father Hidalgo called Mexicans to fight for their independence in 1810
• NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement
• Argentina is not part of North America
• The Continental Divide is a stretch of land along the Rocky Mountains that separates streams and rivers that flow east from those that flow west
• Typhoons are a type of natural disaster that would not affect people in North America
• The term culture refers to all the ways that a group of humans has learned to interact, and would include These might include: houses, music, clothing, religion, law, and art, spelling, reading, and math, college, grade school, high school, but would not include specific kinds of jobs like: veterinarians, engineers, and lawyers
• Going to church on Sunday is not an example of Universal Culture among humans
• Catholic social teaching includes doctrines relating to the collective welfare of humanity and the earth. There are seven key themes: § Sanctity of human life and dignity of the person § Call to family, community, and participation § Rights and responsibilities § Preferential Option for the poor and vulnerable § Dignity of work and the rights of workers § Solidarity § Care for God's creation You should be able to describe how a particular news event relates to these themes, and describe some way that you could act or behave in your daily life that would put that social justice teaching into practice.
• Be prepared to write about one thing that members of our class shared about the stories, artifacts, timelines, and traditions of their families, What is one question that you would ask about this if you were thinking about it like an anthropologist studying “culture?”
• Give an example of a subculture
• List three words that describe marriage or kinship relationships
• What could you guess about the culture of the society that created this coin?

• What does the word “tariff” mean?
• Use a product map to determine how many different types of products are produced in an area and make a decision about where you might place a factory.