SOCIAL STUDIES
         Our Social Studies book,
  Our Country's Regions, is divided over 6 units.  Each unit represents a
region of the United States.  These
regions are (in order), Southeast,
Southwest, Northeast, Middle West,
Mountain States and the West.
    Within each unit, there are lessons
that are within 2 chapters per unit.  The odd chapters cover the environment and geography of the
  region.  The even chapters cover
       the history, economy and
             culture of the region.
THE SOUTHWEST  Chapters 1-2
Chap 1 Vocab Words
canyon
mesa
butte
erosion
desert
drought
petroleum
latitude
longitude
parallels
meridians
prime meridian
spring
aqueduct
dry farming
crude oil
refinery

Chap 2 Vocab Words
pueblo     
steppe    
mission    
vaquero    
cattle drive 
high technology
NAFTA
adobe
nomadic
rancho
barbed wire
industry
astronomer
reservation
cashmere
conquistador
THE SOUTHEAST  Chapters 3-4
THE NORTHEAST  Chapters 5-6
THE MIDDLE WEST  Chapters 7-8
THE MOUNTAIN STATES Chapters 9-10
THE WEST Chapters 11-12
Chap 3 Vocab Words
Chap 7 Vocab Words
Chap 9 Vocab Words
Chap 10 Vocab Words
source
tributary
river basin
mouth
port
delta
agriculture
growing season

Chap 5 Vocab Words
harbor
bay
glacier
fall line
broadleaf
needleleaf
foliage
granite
quarry
canal
lock
suburb
urban
metropolitan area
commute
cash crop
irrigation
tourist
coal
labor union
map scale
large-map scale
small-map scale
council
syllabary
Trail of Tears
colony
House of Burgesses
Declaration of Independence
apartheid
Underground Railroad
abolition
boycott
civil rights

Chap 4 Vocab Words
township
plantation
segregation

Iroquois Confederacy
longhouse
clan
green Law of Peace
sachem
import
export
Patriot
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Minuteman
American Revolution
Industrial Revolution
invention
telegraph
tenement
sweatshop
migrate
megalopolis
Boswash
Terriorism
Chap 6 Vocab Words
Chap 8 Vocab Words
Chap 12 Vocab Words
Chap 11 Vocab Words
prairie
livestock
lake effect
tornado
blizzard
iron
ore
open pit mining
taconite
reclamation

frontier
pioneer
flatboat
Conestoga wagon
sod
teepee
migration
mass production
assembly line
robot
comine
agribusiness
food processing
specialize
subsistence farming
commercial farming
industrialization

geyser
Continental Divide
timberline
vegetation map
smelt
slag
treaty
Louisiana Purchase
expedition
ghost town
transcontinental
suffrage
gorge
landlocked
canton

earthquake
volcano
lava
road map
interstate highway
rain forest
rain shadow
Central Valley Project
fertilizer
logging
deforestation

taro
gold rush
forty-niner
mother lode
strike
discrmination
silicon
software
urban sprawl
Pacific Rim
electronics
hybrid car
robotics