5th Grade Social Studies Chapter 7 Vocabulary Mrs. Thornburg’s version

What do we call a region that shares the same time?

Time Zone

What do we call crossing a continent?

Transcontinental

What do we call a long period with little or no rain?

Drought

What do we call twisted wire with a sharp barb, or point, every few inches?

Barbed wire

What do we call land that the government set aside for American Indians?

Reservation

What do we call an African American settler who called him or herself after Exodus, a book of the Bible?

Exodusters

What do we call a town where railroad tracks begin or end?

Railhead

What do we call a settler’s home and land?

Homestead

What do we call an unfair, negative opinion that can lead to unjust treatment?

Prejudice

What was the name given to Great Plains farmers because they had to break through so much thick soil, called sod, in order to farm?

Sodbuster

What do we call changing a group’s culture and traditions so that it blends with a larger group?

Assimilate

What do we call the amount of something that people want to sell at certain prices?

Supply

What do we call the amount of something that people want to buy at certain prices?

Demand

What do we call the area where an animal or a plant normally lives or grows?

Habitat

What do we call it when a certain type of plant or animal no longer exists?

Extinct