1. 5th Grade Social Studies Chapter 7 Vocabulary
Mrs. Thornburg’s version

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

3. Time Zone

4. What do we call crossing a continent?

5. Transcontinental

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

7. Drought

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

9. Barbed wire

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

11. Reservation

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

13. Exodusters

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

15. Railhead

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

17. Homestead

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

19. Prejudice

20. 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?

21. Sodbuster

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

23. Assimilate

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

25. Supply

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

27. Demand

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

29. Habitat

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

31. Extinct