Social Studies Jeopardy Round #2 VocabularyMAPEconomicsGovernmentGeographyHistory

#1 What is the term used to define the use of goods and services by consumers, businesses, or governments?

#1 Answer: Consumption

#2 What refers to the acceptance of choice of less of one thing to get more of something else?

#2 Answer: Trade-offs

#3 What is the term used to define sources that are firsthand that may be used by historians in trying to reconstruct and interpret the past. Examples of these might be eye witness accounts of an event; texts of speeches, photographs of people; etc.

#3 Answer: Primary Sources

#4 Define and explain capital resources – give three examples of capital resources.

#4 Answer: Goods used to produce other goods and services. Examples: buildings, machinery, tools, ports, dams, etc.

#5 Define and explain the difference between limited and unlimited government – give an example of an unlimited government.

#5 Answer: Limited government is a government whose powers are limited through constitutionally imposed restrictions. Unlimited government is a government where there are no restraints upon the political leaders. Examples: Dictatorship, Totalitarian

#6 To give the main points in a brief form with the small details not included is to do what?

#6 Answer: Summarize

#7 What is the word for the customary beliefs and social norms of a group; the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, and all other products of human work and thought characteristic of a population?

#7 Answer: Culture

#8 What are you doing when you tell how things are similar and examine points to explain their differences?

#8 Answer: Comparing and Contrasting

#9 What are the three inalienable rights that Thomas Jefferson wrote of and where did he write them?

#9 Answer: Thomas Jefferson wrote of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the Declaration of Independence.

#10 Give a clear and through explanation and example of rights of citizens. 1)Personal rights 2) Political rights 3) Economic rights

#10 Answer: 1.Personal rights include freedom of conscience and religion, freedom of movement, residence, and privacy. 2.Political rights include the right to vote, petition, assembly, and freedom of press. 3.Economic rights includes the right to own personal property, choose work, join unions, establish a business (accept reasonable answers).

#11 What economic concept is best described as a rise in prices with a decrease in the value of money?

#11 Answer: Inflation

#12 Farms are larger than earlier in history, but few people are farmers because of what?

#12 Answer: Industrialization or Industrial Revolution

#13 According to the chart, what is the third leading area of employment outside of agriculture?

#13 Answer: Government

#14 Define and give at least three examples of factors of production.

#14 Answer: Factors of productions are the inputs into the production process. Examples: natural resources (land); human resources (human labor); capital resources (buildings, equipment, machinery, tools, etc.) (Accept any reasonable response)

#15 Describe and explain what public goods – give three examples of public goods.)

#15 Answer: Public goods are goods or services that cannot be withheld from customers who refuse to pay for them, where the consumption of these goods does not reduce their usefulness to others. Examples: national defense, street lights, Public safety, fire protection, flood control, etc.

#16 District Courts, Courts of Appeals, and the Supreme Court are parts of what branch of government?

#16 Answer: Judicial Branch

#17 What term defines a political system in which a national government shares power with state or provincial government and each level of government has definite powers and each level may act directly on individuals within its jurisdiction?

#17 Answer: Federalism

#18 Describe and explain the two basic concepts of government that the United States Constitution established and why the authors of the constitution included these two concepts.

#18 Answer: 1)Separation of powers 2) Checks and balances - These two concepts were included to prevent any one branch of government from becoming too powerful.

#19 Describe limited government and unlimited government – give examples in your explanation.

#19 Answer: Limited government is a government whose powers are limited through constitutionally imposed restrictions. Unlimited government is a government in which there are no restraints on the political leaders. A democratic government is a limited government, there are restrictions that protect the citizens from unfair rules by political leaders. Unlimited government gives all the power to one person or a small group of people.

#20 Name the three branches of government and describe what their functions are.

#20 Legislative, Executive, Judicial – The legislative branch makes the laws; executive branch enforces the laws; judicial branch interprets the laws.

#21 Land surrounded on three sides by water is called a what?

#21 Answer: Peninsula

#22 What is the term for the system that is formed by the interaction of all living organisms (plants, animals, people) with each other and with the physical and chemical factors in the environment in which they live?

#22 Answer: Ecosystem

#23 What two states share the Eastern Shore with Virginia?

#23 Answer: Delaware and Maryland

#24 When identifying where a place is on the surface of the earth using some arbitrary, mathematical grid system, such as latitude and longitude – what are you giving of this place?

#24 Answer: Absolute location

#25 What term is used by geographers when they refer to physical characteristics and human characteristics that may be used to describe an area? Name the term and give examples of them.

#25 Answer: Place

#26 What was the primary purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

#26 Answer: To list reasons the colonies should be free from England

#27 When the United States Constitution was written, what was the major argument against its ratification?

#27 Answer: It did not contain a bill of rights

#28 “Great Compromise Approved by the Delegates” – “James Madison Shines As the Primary Author and Spokesman” – Document Viewed To Be Incomplete Without a Bill of Rights” The above headlines address which major document in United States History?

#28 Answer: United States Constitution

#29 When Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, there was much conflict through out the country. Describe at least three major events that led to the Civil War.

#29 Answer: Eleven Southern states seceded (withdrew) from the Union. Southern States set up an independent government (Confederate States) Conflict over issues of federal government control of states

#30 The Founding Fathers established three main principles on which they based our government in the United States Constitution. The Constitution is organized into three parts. Name the three parts and describe what they do.

#30 Answer: Preamble – describes the purpose of the document and government. Articles – establishes how the government is structured and how the Constitution can be changed – there are seven articles. Amendments – changes to the Constitution, first ten are Bill of Rights