LearningExpress - GED Test Social Studies Flash Review

KEY TERMS Abolitionism ................................ Aboriginal ................................ Absolute location A reform movement during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that advocated the end of African slavery in Europe and the Americas. ................................ Being the first or earliest known inhabitants of a region. ................................

The exact position of a place on Earths surface. Accretion ................................ Acculturation ................................ Acid depositions The slow process of a sea plate sliding under a continental plate, creating debris that can cause continents to grow outward. ................................ ................................ ................................

Wet or dry airborne acids falling to Earth. Acid rain ................................ Allied powers ................................ Precipitation carrying large amounts of dissolved acids that damage buildings, forests, and crops and kill wildlife. ................................ A military coalition formed between nations in opposition to another alliance of countries.

In World War I, the Allied powers included 28 nations that opposed the Central powers. In World War II, the Allied powers fought the Axis powers.
................................ Alluvial plain ................................ Alluvial soil ................................ ................................ ................................

Rich soil made of sand and mud deposited by running water. ................................ Spanish for high plain; a region in Peru and Bolivia encircled by the Andes Mountains. Amendment ................................ Animism ................................ The U.S. The U.S.

Constitution has 27 amendments. The first ten are collectively known as the Bill of Rights. ................................ The belief that spirits inhabit natural objects and forces of nature. ................................ The policy of strict separation of the races adopted in South Africa in the 1940s.

Aquaculture ................................ Aquifer ................................ Arable The cultivation of fish and other seafood. ................................ Underground water-bearing layers of porous rock, sand, or gravel. ................................

Suitable for growing crops. Archipelago ................................ Arctic zone ................................ Artesian well A group or chain of islands. ................................ ................................ ................................

A bored well from which water flows up like a fountain. Articles of Confederation ................................ Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ................................ Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) The first compact (agreement) uniting the American colonies; it was formally ratified by all 13 states in 1781. It was replaced by the U.S. ................................ ................................

A trade group whose members ensure that trade among the member countries of Asia and the Pacific is efficient and fair. ................................ An organization formed in 1967 to promote regional development and trade in Southeast Asia. Atheism ................................ Atmosphere ................................ ................................ ................................

A layer of gases surrounding Earth. ................................ A ring-shaped island formed by coral building up along the rim of an underwater volcano, usually with a central lagoon. Autocracy ................................ Autonomous areas ................................ ................................ ................................

Minor political subunits created in the former Soviet Union and designed to recognize the special status of minority groups within existing republics. ................................ A large mass of ice, snow, or rock that slides down a mountainside. Axis ................................ Balkanize ................................ ................................ ................................

To divide a region into smaller regions, often hostile toward each other. ................................ As communities grew, a system of barteringtrading goods or servicesdeveloped. Bill of Rights ................................ Bolshevik ................................ Boston Tea Party The first ten amendments to the U.S.

Constitution. Ratified in 1791, the Bill of Rights safeguards the liberties of individuals. These liberties include: the right to practice ones religion freely the right to free speech the right to a free press the right to bear firearms the right to meet and to petition the government the right to a fair and speedy trial the right to representation by a lawyer the right to know the crime with which one is being charged protection from being tried twice for the same crime protection from excessive bail and/or cruel and unusual punishment ................................ A member of the radical faction of the Russian socialist party that took power in Russia and formed the Communist Party in 1918. ................................ A 1773 incident staged by American colonists protesting the British tax on tea.

The colonists threw three shipments of tea into Boston Harbor. Bubonic plague ................................ Business cycle ................................ Capitalism An infectious disease that killed up to one-third of all Europeans in the fourteenth century. Also called the Black Death. ................................

A period of low productivity followed by a period of high productivity in a capitalist economy. ................................ An economic system in which individuals and private organizations produce and distribute goods and services in a free market.
Central powers ................................ Charter ................................ A military coalition of nations that fought against the Allied powers in World War I.

The Central powers included Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, and Turkey.
................................ A text or document that provides specific rights to a group or person, often issued by a government. ................................ Checks and balances ................................ Civilization ................................

Climactic zone A system outlined by the U.S. Constitution that divides authority between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government so that no branch of government dominates the others.
................................ An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and technological development in human society. ................................ Any of several broad areas that lie along latitudinal lines between the equator and the North and South Poles.

Climate ................................ Cold War ................................ Commission The atmospheric characteristics near the Earths surface over a period of time. Climate includes average temperature, rainfall, humidity, wind, and barometric pressure. ................................ ................................ ................................

A form of local government in which voters elect commissioners to head a city or county department, such as the fire, police, or public works department. Communism ................................ Communist Manifesto ................................ An economic and political system in which the means of production are owned collectively and controlled by the state.