3rd Grade Social Studies Trivia

Chapter 1 (lessons 1, 3, and 4) 1. What is a community? Answer: a group of people who live and work in the same place. 2. Why do people live in communities? Answer: they like to do things with other people and like feeling as though they belong. 3. What is a citizen? Answer: A person who lives in and belongs to a community. 4. What are three types of businesses you might find in large communities? Answer: Hospitals, stores, restaurants, museums, taxis, large companies 5. Wood, soil, water, stone, are all examples of what? Answer: natural resources 6. Define custom. Answer: a way of doing something, Hmong New Year, holiday celebrations 7. Does Wausau have a custom that is unique to the area? Hmong New Year, Parade of Lights, Renaissance Festival, Log Jam 8. Set of values and traditions handed down to a group from those who lived before them is called a ______________. Answer: tradition 9. What is an ethnic group? Answer: people who share the same language and culture. 10. Give two examples of ethnic groups found in Wausau. Answer: Hispanic and Hmong 11. In order to have a safe and peaceful community to live in, people must ______________. Answer: cooperate 12. Define cooperate. Answer: to work helpfully together. 13. What is responsibility? Answer: something a person should do because it is necessary and important. 14. What are some of the responsibilities of a community government? Answer: to make laws and help solve community problems 15. What is one responsibility a citizen has? Answer: to understand and obey laws

16. What is one responsibility students have to keep the school community safe and peaceful? Answer: to follow the rules 17. This person leads some community governments. Who is this person? Answer: mayor 18. What important job does the mayor of a community perform? Answer: to see that a communitys problems are solved Chapter 2 (lesson 1): 1. What are at least three things you need to know about making and/or reading maps? Answer: map titles, map key, distance scale, cardinal directions, map symbol, and compass rose 2. What does a border show on a map? Answer: where a state or nation end 3. Why is a globe a better model of the Earth than a map? Answer: a globe shows the true shape of oceans and the continents 4. Name the hemispheres that the world is divided into. Answer: northern, southern, eastern, western. 5. What does hemisphere mean? Answer: half of the globe when it is divided into either northern and southern halves or eastern and western halves 6. What is location and give a specific example of location. Answer: location is the place where something is found Wausau is a location 7. Why are so many communities built near railroad tracks? Answer: To easily send or receive goods Chapter 5 and 6 1. What does a geographer do? Answer: studies Earth and its people 2. What is the difference between geographer and geography? Answer: geography is the study of Earths features and a geographer is the person who studies those features. 3. What are three out of the four regions that the United States are divided into?

Answer: Northeast, South, Middle West, and West 4. Why do geographers group states into regions? Answer: to study the land and its people 5. What is a grid system? Answer: a set of lines that are the same distance apart that cross one another to form boxes. 6. What is a grid system useful? Answer: It allows you to find a location more quickly and easily 7.Explain what an ecosystem is. Answer: plants and animals and the environment in which they live. 8. What is the wearing away of the Earths surface called? Answer: erosion 9. How can pollution affect an animals life? Answer: it can make the land, air, or water dirty and unsafe for an animal 10. Give two ways that you can conserve resources. Answer: replace and protect resources that are used (trees and plants) Turn off lights if you are not using them, and take shorter showers 11. A forest is an ecosystem, describe another ecosystem. Answer: a desert, pond, jungle, marsh 12. What are three types of pollution? Answer: air, soil, water 13. What are landforms with steep sides and a flat top? Answer: plateau 14. What are ways that people can adapt to the climate in which they live? Answer: they can wear special clothes, use special fuels to heat or cool their homes 15. Give three examples of landforms. Answer: mountains, valleys, plateaus, plains 16. Give two physical features around Wausau. Answer: Lake Wausau, Wisconsin River, Rib Mt., cold in the winter, warm in the summer, seasons, plants grow for harvest spring to fall 17. Why are valleys good places for communities? Answer: water will run down from the mountain and soil is rich so crops will grow easily there 18. Give an example of a human feature in Wausau. Answer: I39, Walmart, schools, any roads, buildings, farms etc. added to the area

19. Would Wausau be considered a community that is built at a crossroads? Explain. Answer: yes, because it is built around the juncture of HWY 29 and HWY 51. This is an important connection for transporting goods etc. across the state both east and west, as well as north and south 20.Explain what a desert is. Answer: a place with a very dry climate that is found in the southern United States 21. Define the term environment. Answer: All of the physical and human features and conditions of a place. What people have done to a place to allow them to live. 22.Would the growing season be longer or shorter in Wisconsin versus Florida? Explain. Answer: Shorter, winter in Wisconsin is too cold to grow crops outside. 23.Give an example of intermediate directions. Answer: northeast, southeast, northwest, southwest Chapter 7 (lessons 1 and 3) & Chapter 8 (lessons 1 and 3) 1. What is a cutaway diagram? Answer: A diagram that shows the outside and inside of an object at the same time. 2. How can using a cutaway diagram help readers understand the structure of an object? Answer: By seeing both the outside and the inside of an object at the same time, a reader can get a better understanding of the object is set up or how the technology of the object works. 3. Someone whose courage set an example for others is called a ______. Answer: Hero 4. Community heroes are people who show strong citizenship skills dedicate their lives to serving others and making the world a better place in which to live. Identify two people or organizations that could be considered Wausau community heroes. What have they done to make the world a better place to live? Answer: Red Cross donated items to hurricane (or other world disaster) relief. 5. What is an immigrant? Answer: Someone who comes to live in a country from somewhere else in the world.

6. Why do people migrate from one area to another? Answer: For better opportunities; especially with jobs and education. People also migrate for a chance at a better way of life or freedom. 7. How can immigrants make a difference in the Wausau community? Answer: Immigrants can make a difference by sharing their cultures, customs and foods with people in the Wausau community. By sharing things about where they came from teaches others about a place they may not know about. 8. Explain why immigrants might feel homesick when they first arrive in their new country. Answer: Immigrants miss their home and family and also the language and customs of their culture. 9. What is language? Answer: The signs or words people use to communicate. 10. A tale that may have started as a true story about a real person or event but includes details that didnt really happen is called a _______. Answer: Legend 11. A story that explains nature through actions of gods and goddesses is a _______. Answer: Myth. 12. A humorous exaggeration to tell why something is the way it is, is called a ________. Answer: Tall-tale. 13. What do legends, myths, and tall tales all have in common? Answer: They are stories people tell. 14. Define monument. Answer: A monument is something created to honor and remember a person or event. 15. What is one reason people build monuments? Answer: People build monuments to honor their leaders and the ideas they stand for. 16. Name 3 monuments found in the Wausau area. Answer: 1) WWI Angels watching over the soldiers, 2) Vietnam, Korea, and WWII, 3) Civil War, 4) Battle of the Bulge, 5) Congressional Medal of Honor, 6) Old Building Block Monument, 7) Kayakers Monument. 17. What is a memorial? Answer: Something that keeps a memory alive.

18. Define opportunity. Answer: The chance to find a job, get an education, or have a better way of life. 19. A piece of art, such as a statue, that can be viewed from all sides is a ______. Answer: Sculpture 20.What types of materials are sculptures made from? Answer: Stone, metal, and other materials.