YOUR STEPS TO SUCCESS!!
Social Studies
YOUR STEPS TO SUCCESS!!
Step 1: The Official Social Studies Practice Test will be mailed to you. This is half the length of the actual GED test. Please complete the test within the time limits and mail back to us in the envelope provided. The instructors will correct your test and tell you your Standard Score.
Step 2: We will be using the Steck-Vaughn Complete GED Preparation book copy write 2002. Check with your local bookstores or call the Adult Learning Center if you would like to purchase one. The Adult Learning Center charges $20.00 + postage for the book.
Step 3: Time to begin!! Turn to page 200. Page
200-201
gives information about this test.
Click on the
following lessons. Start with Lesson One and go in order.
Each lesson
builds on the previous lessons.
Links to
extra notes will be provided in each section as they are completed.
United
States History
Lesson 1-6
Lesson One
European Colonization of North America
Lesson Two
The American Revolution
Lesson Three
Westward Expansion
Lesson Four
The Civil War
Lesson Five
Industrialization
Lesson Six
The United States and the World
Unites States History Review
World
History
Lesson 7-10
Lesson Seven
Ancient Empires of the World
Lesson Eight
How Nations Arose
Lesson Nine
Global Expansion
Lesson Ten
The Post-Cold War World
World History Review
Civics
and Government
Lessons 11-14
Lesson Eleven
Modern Government
Lesson Twelve
Structure of the U.S. Government
Lesson Thirteen
U.S. Politics in Action
Lesson Fourteen
Government and Its Citizens
Civics and Government Review
ECONOMICS
Lessons 15-17
Lesson Fifteen
General Economic Principles
Lesson Sixteen
The Government and the Economy
Lesson Seventeen
Labor and the Economy
Economics Review
GEOGRAPHY
Lessons 18-20
Lesson Eighteen
Places and Regions
Lesson Nineteen
Resources Affect Where People Live
Lesson Twenty
How People Change the Environment
Geography Review
Unit Review
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Lesson One:
Assignment:
Read page 202. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. On page 201, the governor of Delaware, Ruth Ann
Minner studied for her _____ at night.
2. What is a main idea?
3. How should you find the main ideas of a passage?
4. What is a topic sentence?
5. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the
TIP say?
6. Complete the passage and answer the question.
Read page 203. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What kind of group were the pilgrims?
2. Why were they persecuted in England?
3. What is the meaning of the word persecuted? (You
will need a dictionary)
4. What agreement did the colonists write and sign?
5. Complete questions 1-3.
6. Were the government and church closely related in
the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
7. Who founded Rhode Island and why?
8. Complete question 4.
Check your answers for 1-4 on page 754. Email how many you had right.
Read page 204. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Look at the graph. What population does the blue
represent?
2. Look at the graph. What population does the gray
represent?
3. What does democracy mean?
4. How were the 13 British colonies governed?
_________, _________, and _______.
5. How did the Royal Colony run?
6. How did proprietary colonies run?
7. How did self-governing colonies run?
Answer the questions on page 204. Check your answers on page 754. Email how many you had right.
Read page 205. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. How did New England colonies earn their living?
2. How did the middle colonies earn their living?
3. How did the southern colonies earn their living?
4. There is a TIP at the bottom right. What does the
TIP say?
Complete the questions on page 205. Check your answers on page 754. Email how many you had right.
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Lesson Two
Assignment:
Read page 206. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a summary?
2. To summarize visual material you should ask:
________, _________, _______, _______,
____________, and __________.
3. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the TIP
say?
Read page 207. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Before the U.S. Constitution there was
____________________________.
2. How was the legislature divided?
3. Why do some states have more Representatives than
other states?
4. How many Senators are from each state?
5. How many years does on term consist of for a
Senator?
6. How many votes does each Senator have?
7. Complete questions 1-2.
8. The Cherokee adopted European-American patterns of
______________.
Complete the questions on page 207. Check your answers on page 755. Email how many you had right.
Read page 208. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. The states as we know them now: Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin were
once known as The _____________
_______________.
2. How many square sections in a township?
3. How many acres make a half-quarter section?
4. How many acres make a quarter section?
5. How many acres make a half section?
6. How many acres make a whole section?
Complete the questions on page 208. Check your answers on page 755. Email how many you had right.
Lesson
Three:Assignment:
Read page 209. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is an assumption?
2. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the
TIP say?
3. Complete the passage on page 209
Read page 210. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Who was the President in 1853?
2. Why did he send James Gadsden to Mexico to alter the
border between U.S. and Mexico?
3. Why did the Mexican president agree to turn over
29,000,000 acres to the U.S.?
4. Why was the railroad project postponed?
5. Complete questions 1-2 on page 210.
6. Why did Mexican-Americans lose land which had been
in their families for generations?
7. Complete question 3 on page 210.
8. Look at the map on page 211. What does the black
square represent?
9. Look at the map on page 211. What does the black
circle represent?
10. Look at the map on page 211. What does the black dashed lines
represent?
11. Look at the map on page 211. What does the blue represent?
12. What was the treaty about that was signed at Fort Laramie on
the Oregon Trail?
13. Complete the questions 4-6 on page 211.
Check your answers on page 755. Email how many you had right.
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Lesson Four:
Assignment:
Read page 212. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a cause?
2. What is an effect?
3. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the
TIP say?
4. Complete the passage on page 212.
Read page 213. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
2. How did the North benefit?
3. Look at the Table on page 213. What was the purpose
of Amendment 13?
4. Look at the Table on page 213. What year was
Amendment 14?
5. Look at the Table on page 213. What was Amendment
15?
Complete the questions on page 213. Correct your answers on page 756. Email how many you had right.
Read page 214. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What was the Gettysburg Address?
2. Whose speech was the Gettysburg Address?
3. Where did he read the Gettysburg Address at?
4. Complete questions 5-6 on page 214.
5. Lee surrendered and returned to Virginia. What did
he urge all Southerners to do?
6. Complete questions 7-8
7. There is a TIP at the bottom left. What does it say?
Check your answers to questions 5-8 on page 756. Email how many you had right.
Lesson Five:
Assignment:
Read page 215. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What are values?
2. There is a TIP on the left. What does the TIP
say?
3. Complete the passage.
Read page 216. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What 2 important ideas did Eli Whitney introduce
for improving manufacturing?
2. Adopting this approach made the U.S. the world's
leading ______________ of goods.
3. Complete questions 1-2 on page 216.
4. What kind of harsh practices did John D. Rockefeller
use to dominate the oil-refining
industry?
5. What is a trust?
6. What is a monopoly?
7. Complete questions 3-4 on page 216.
8. What things contributed to the development of
large cities?
9. What was the Great Migration?
10. What problems did rapid urban growth create?
11. Look at the timeline on page 217. What is the title of this
timeline?
12. There is a TIP at the bottom of the page. What
does the TIP say?
13. Complete questions 5-8 on page 217.
Check your answers for questions 1-8 on page 757. Email how many you had right.
Lesson Six:
Assignment:
Read page 218. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a conclusion?
2. What is a supporting detail?
3. How can you identify a writer's conclusion?
4. There is a TIP on the left side. What does it say?
5. Complete the passage on page 218.
Read page 219. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What year did WWI end?
2. The war's end caused the ______________ to slow.
3. Why were factories shut down?
4. Look at the political cartoon. #4 talks about a Red
Scare. What was the Red Scare?
Complete the questions on page 219. Check your answers on page 757. Email how many you had right.
Read page 220. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What was President's Roosevelt's aim?
2. His aim was called the ________ _________.
3. What did his critics fear?
4. Some of his New Deal is still here today. List some
of them.
5. Look at the chart on page 220. What year did Social
Security start?
6. Look at the chart on page 220. What was the purpose
of the Fair Labor Standards Act?
Complete the questions on page 220. Check your answers on page 757. Email how many you had right.
Review:
United States History:
Email the answers to the following questions.
1. The Knight of Labor called for _______________,
______________, and ________
______________.
2. Why did the Knights' reputation suffer?
3. What does AFL stand for?
4. Why was the AFL successful?
5. What did the Clayton Act do?
6. What did the National Labor Relations Act do?
7. Look at the chart on page 221. What is the title of
the chart?
8. Look at the chart on page 221. What was the source
for this chart?
Complete the questions on page 221. Answers on page 758.Email how many you had right.
Read page 222. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What was Reconstruction?
2. What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
3. What was sharecropping?
Complete the questions on page 222. Answers are on page 758. Email how many you had right.
Read page 223. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What was the March on Washington?
2. Who was the civil rights leader at this March?
3. What speech did he give?
4. What amendment was added to the Constitution because
of this?
5. What did the Civil Rights Act do?
6. What did some Southerners do to African Americans
who tried to register to vote?
7. What did the Voting Rights Act do?
Complete the questions on page 223. Answers are on page 758. Email how many you have right.
Website for U.S. History: http://amby.com/educate/soc-stud.html
Email Address
Williston email:
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Lesson Seven:
Assignment:
Read page 224. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What does the word implication mean?
2. There is a TIP at the bottom of the page. What does
it say?
Read page 225. Email the answers to the following
questions.
1. What are clans?
2. What are aristocracies?
3. What are demos?
4. Demos government was called a _________________.
5. What was the greatest democracy in Greece?
6. Name one person in Science and Thought and what he
founded or developed.
7. Name one person in Art and Drama and what he wrote
or sculpted.
8. There is a TIP at the bottom of the page. What does
the TIP say?
Complete the questions on page 225. Check your answers on page 759. Email how many you had right.
Read page 226. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Where did advanced civilizations first appear in
South America?
2. Which group of people first farmed the region?
3. What did the Moche create?
4. What kind of government did the Maya's have?
5. How did the Maya's carry trade goods?
6. What was the largest city in ancient America?
7. Which group of people built a new civilization where
the Teotihuacan had been?
Complete the questions on page 226. Check your answers on page 759. Email how many you had right.
Read page 227. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What new power was rising?
2. What happened when Roman laws were written down?
3. When did Rome control all of Italy?
4. Rome gained control of _______, ___________,
___________, and __________.
5. Did Rome grant citizenship to people outside of
Italy? yes or no
6. Describe what each Government of the Roman Republic
did:
Senate:
________________________________________________________________________
Popular
Assemblies: ______________________________________________________________
Consuls:
_______________________________________________________________________
Praetors:
_______________________________________________________________________
Censors:
_______________________________________________________________________
Complete the questions on page 227. Check your answers on page 759. Email how many you had right.
Lesson Eight: Assignment:
Read page 228. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What are generalizations?
2. What are conclusions?
3. What does appropriate information mean?
4. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the
TIP say?
5. Complete the passage on page 228.
Read page 229. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. How did Islam spread beyond the Muslim homeland?
2. What became important when Muslims gained control?
3. Which group of people eventually gained control of
the Muslim world?
4. What countries did the Ottoman gain control over?
5. Ghana was rich in ____________, ____________, and
___________ _____________.
6. Ghana eventually became part of the ____________
kingdom.
7. Timbuktu was an important center for ____________.
8. Which kingdom captured Mali?
9. What did the schools teach in Songhay kingdom?
Complete the questions on page 229. Check your answers on page 760. Email how many you had right.
Read page 230. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Who led the Mongols?
2. What helped save Europe from Batu's conquest?
3. When did Halagu fail in an invasion?
4. What conquests did Kublai Khan have?
5. How many miles could the archers travel in a day on
horseback?
Complete the questions on page 230. Check your answers on page 760. Email how many you had right.
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Williston email:
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Lesson Nine: Assignment:
Read page 231. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What does cause mean?
2. What does the word effect mean?
3. What are implied causes?
4. What is another way to imply a cause?
5. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the TIP
say?
6. Complete the passage on page 231.
Read page 232. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Why is Central America an important region in
the world of trade?
2. U.S. companies have large investments in
____________, ____________, and _________________.
3. Who was aiding rebels in Central America?
4. Who were the contras?
Complete the questions on page 232. Check your answers on page 761. Email how many you had right.
Read page 233. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Chinese merchants would only accept what for
their trade goods?
2. What did the British traders start offering in order
to pay for their goods?
3. What did China have to turn over to the British?
Complete the questions on page 233. Check your answers on page 761. Email how many you had right.
Lesson Ten: Assignment:
Read page 234. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is an assumption?
2. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the
TIP say?
3. Complete the passage on page 234.
Read page 235. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. In which country is there a conflict between the
Jews and the Arabs?
2. When did the tensions increase?
3. Which group of people aggravated the tensions?
4. Which group voted to divide Palestine into 2 states?
5. What country did the Jews form?
6. Why has there been violence between the two places?
Complete the questions on page 235. Check your answers on page 762. Email how many you had right.
Read page 236. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What began happening in 1990?
2. Where were the events the most dramatic?
3. What happened to the Berlin Wall?
4. What did the tearing down of
the Berlin Wall signify?
5. What do you think the political cartoon located at
the top of the page means?
Complete the questions on page 236. Check your answers on page 762. Email how
many you had right.
Email Address
Williston email:
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Review: World History:
Read page 237. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is "imperialism"?
2. There are 3 reasons mentioned for the increase in
imperialism. What are they?
3. List the countries that controlled the different
sections of Africa.
4. There is a TIP at the bottom right. What does the
TIP say?
Complete the questions on page 237. Check your answers on page 763. Email how many you had right.
Read page 238. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Mao Zedong converted China's economy to
____________________.
2. What did the Chinese leaders do to the
protestors?
3. What do you think the political cartoon means?
4. There is a TIP at the bottom left. What does the TIP
say?
Complete the questions on page 238. Check your answers on page 763. Email how many you had right.
Read the chart on the top of page 239. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is the title of the chart?
2. What is annexation?
3. What is a dependent colony?
Complete the questions on page 239. Check your answers on page 763. Email how many you had right.
A great website for Old World History has been developed by Larry Larsen from Williams County in ND. Check out his site at: http://www.oldhistory.com/
Another great site for history is: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/
Email Address
Williston email:
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Lesson Eleven: Assignment:
Read page 240. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a fact?
2. What is an opinion?
3. Political arguments are
__________________________________________________.
4. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the TIP
say?
5. Complete the passage on page 240.
Read page 241. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What are "rights"?
2. There are 2 kinds of rights that the government must
protect. What are the 2 rights?
3. Give an example of civil rights.
4. John Locke summarized natural rights as the right to
_________, _______, and _________.
5. What are entitlements?
6. Give an example of an entitlement.
7. What is an important goal in a democracy? (Found on
question 5 on page 241).
8. What is a major goal of a totalitarian government?
Complete the questions on page 241. Check your answers on page 764. Email how many you had right.
Read page 242. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Name 2 forms that a democratic government
may take.
2. Who chooses the president in a democratic
government?
3. The prime minister is the chief executive of which
democratic system: Presidential or Parliamentary?
4. The parliamentary system is based on which model?
Complete the questions on page 242. Check your answers on page 764. Email how many you had right.
Read page 243. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What are the five pillars of democracy?
2. What was the quote the Supreme Court Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes once said?
3. What must each of us to in order for democracy to
work?
Complete the questions on page 243. Check your answers on page 764. Email how many you had right.
Lesson Twelve:
Assignment:
Read page 244. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is comparing?
2. What is contrasting?
3. What is the most important step in using the
skill of comparing and contrasting?
4. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the TIP
say?
5. What does the War Powers Act do?
6. Complete the rest of the passage on page 244.
Read page 245. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is an incumbent?
2. What is one advantage to being an imcumbent?
3. Why does it look like more men win than women?
Complete the questions on page 245. Check your answers on page 765. Email how many you had right.
Read page 246. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. The Constitution can be changed or
________________.
2. How many amendments have been added to the
Constitution?
3. What were the first 10 amendments?
4. Some of the other amendments were what?
5. What are the 2 steps in the amendment process?
Complete the questions on page 246. Check your answers on page 765. Email how many you had right.
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Williston email:
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Lesson Thirteen:
Assignment:
Read page 247. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is faulty logic?
2. Give one example of faulty logic.
3. What is a stereotype?
4. If _____________, _______________,
_______________, or __________________ is used in common
be wary of stereotyping.
5. What is oversimplification?
6. When does oversimplification occur?
7. Give an example of oversimplification.
8. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the TIP
say?
9. Complete the passage on page 247.
Read page 248. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What 2 parties dominate the U.S. politics?
2. When do third parties normally appear?
3. Name 2 of the third parties.
4. How do third parties effect a presidential election?
5. There is a TIP at the bottom right. What does the
TIP say?
Complete the questions on page 248. Check your answers on page 766. Email how many you had right.
Read page 249. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What animal represents the Republicans?
2. What animal represents the Democrats?
3. What is the Donkey saying in the cartoon?
4. How does the Elephant respond in the cartoon?
5. Where do campaign funds come from?
6. What is the money amount limit for contribution for
a person in a federal office?
7. What is a PAC?
8. What is the money amount limit for PAC to give to a
person?
9. PAC's can give limited or unlimited funds to the
political party.
Complete the questions on page 249. Check your answers on page 766. Email how many you had right.
Lesson Fourteen:
Assignment:
Read page 250. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is context?
2. Context is a useful life skill as well as
__________________________.
3. There is a TIP at the bottom left. What does the TIP
say?
4. Finish reading the passage and answer the question.
Read page 251. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. How does the federal government get its money to
pay for programs and operating expenses?
2. What is the main source of revenue for the federal
government?
3. What are other revenue sources for the government?
4. What are treasury notes and bonds?
5. What is the "national debt"?
6. Look at the pie chart. What percentage is spent on
National Defense?
7. There is a TIP at the bottom right. What does the
TIP say?
Complete the questions on page 251. Check your answers on page 767. Email how many you had right.
Read page 252. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is the name of the chart?
2. The left side of the chart represents what?
3. The bottom of the chart represents what?
4. Which year did the government owe each person
$1,807.00?
5. How much was owed to each person in 1940?
Complete the questions on page 252. Check your answers on page 767. Email how many you had right.
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Williston email:
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Review: Civics and
Government:
Read page 253. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What are the 3 ways to get power over people?
2. What is "power"?
3. What is "force"?
4. What is "authority"?
5. What is "influence"?
6. Legitimate power creates what kind of government?
7. There is a TIP at the bottom of the page. What does
the TIP say?
Complete the questions on page 253. Check your answers on page 768. Email how many you had right.
Read page 254. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. The 50 states divide their power among the
____________, ___________, and ____________.
2. Who heads the executive branch?
3. What is a bicameral?
4. What is a unicameral?
5. Which state has the unicameral?
6. Most terms of governors last _____ years.
7. How are the number of state representatives for the
House of Representatives determined?
8. There is a TIP on the right side. What does the TIP say?
Complete the questions on page 254. Check your answers on page 768. Email how many you right.
Read page 255. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Who could vote in 1789?
2. Look at the chart. What is the title of the chart?
3. What year was Amendment 23 ratified?
4. What are the provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment?
5. Which amendment extended voting rights to women and
what year?
Complete the questions on page 255. Check your answers on page 768. Email how many you had right.
Lesson Fifteen:
Assignment:
Read page 256. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is "economics"?
2. What does understanding economics help us do?
3. How do we deal with economics everyday?
4. What does the word concept mean?
5. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the TIP
say?
Read page 257. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What principles help determine workers' wages?
2. If there are a lot of people for one job will the
wages be higher or lower?
3. If there are very few people qualified for one
occupation will the wages be higher or lower?
4. What is another factor that influences pay?
5. Look at the chart. Which occupation earned the
least?
6. Which occupation earned about $18,000 a year?
Complete the questions on page 257. Check your answers on page 770. Email how many you had right.
Read page 258. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a proprietorship business?
2. What is a partnership business?
3. What is a corporation?
4. When do businesses profit?
5. When interest rates are low what do people do?
6. When does the economy slow?
Complete the questions on page 258. Check your answers on page 770. Email how many you had right.
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Williston email:
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Lesson Sixteen:
Assignment:
Read page 259. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Name 2 ways to show information visually.
2. Why are graphs used?
3. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the TIP
say?
Complete the passage on page 259.
Read page 260. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What are the 3 major economic systems existing
in today's world?
2. What are the 2 main differences of these systems?
3. Which economic system is favored in the
industrialized western world today?
4. What does capitalism do?
5. Which countries are under communism?
6. What does communism do?
7. Socialism differs a bit from communism in what way?
8. Economic systems often get confused with
______________ systems.
9. What is a warranty?
Complete the questions on page 260. Check your answers on page 771. Email how many you had right.
Read page 261. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Who does the government attempt to protect?
2. What else has increased consumer protection?
3. Look at the chart. What does CPSC stand for?
4. Who inspects meat and poultry?
5. What does the Federal Trade Commission do?
6. What does the FAA do?
7. Who enforces the safety standards for consumer
products?
Complete the answers on page 261. Check your answers on page 771. Email how many you had right.
Lesson Seventeen:
Assignment:
Read page 262. Email the answers to the
following questions.
1. What do you need to consider when you evaluate a
conclusion?
2. What is data?
3. What do you need to understand in order to decide if
the data is adequate?
4. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the TIP
say?
5. What is the NLRA and what does it do?
Complete the passage on page 262.
Read page 263. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Why do companies merge or be taken over by
another company?
2. What do workers of the merged companies worry about?
3. What percent of workers became unemployed because
their company merged or closed?
4. Another 1/3 were let go because of
______________________.
5. Look at the chart. What is the title of the chart?
6. What years are listed on the chart?
7. What activities are listed on the chart?
8. There is a TIP at the bottom. What does the TIP say?
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Read page 264. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is a serious problem in the United States?
2. What percent of teens not in school are unemployed?
3. Where do teens find short term employment?
4. Look at the chart. Which group of people make the
most money: Elementary Education Level, High School Education Level, or College Education Level?
5. Do males or females make more money?
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Review: Economics:
Read page 265. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. The economy is based on exchange of one of 2 things.
What are they?
2. What are goods?
3. What are services?
4. What is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
5. What affects the GDP? _____________ and
_____________.
6. Look at the chart. What does the black line
represent?
7. Look at the chart. What does the blue line
represent?
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Read page 266. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Some people live below the poverty line. What
reasons are listed for this?
2. Look at the chart. What is the title of the chart?
3. What is the source for the information in this
chart?
4. What was the percent of people living in poverty in
1989?
5. What was the percent of people living in poverty in
1998?
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Read page 267. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What are the 4 phases of the 8-10 year business
cycle?
2. What happens during "expansion"?
3. What is a "peak"?
4. What happens during "contraction"?
5. What is a "trough"?
6. Look at the chart. What is the title of the chart?
7. What is "cost-push inflation?
8. What is "a severe reduction or slowing of
business activity and in the flow of money in the
economy; many people are
unemployed and have little money to spend".
9. What is a "recession"?
10. There is a TIP at the bottom. What does the TIP say?
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Williston email:
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Lesson Eighteen:
Assignment:
Read page 268. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What has been essential to human survival?
2. What do people need to know about the land for human
survival?
3. What are verbal restatements?
4. What kind of information do maps give?
5. Information about land may include ________,
_________, _______, _________, ______,
________, and _______.
6. The first thing to do is look at the map's
__________.
7. What is a legend?
8. What is a compass rose?
9. There is a TIP at the bottom. What does the TIP
say?
Read page 269. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Which continent has not attracted permanent
settlers?
2. What is the average temperature in Antarctica?
3. Why is Antarctica considered a desert?
4. Where do plants survive at Antarctica?
5. Look at the map. How many research stations are in
Antarctica?
6. Look at the map. Which oceans surround Antarctica?
7. Look at the map. What is the name of the mountain
range in Antarctica?
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Read page 270. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What is the title of the map?
2. What is the title of the map's legend?
3. Which 3 states have 0-25 persons per square mile?
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Read page 271. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What do mountain ranges form?
2. Look at the map. What mountain ranges is on the East
coast?
3. Look at the map. What mountain ranges are on the
West coast?
4. Look at the map. Which mountain range goes through
Montana?
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Lesson Nineteen:
Assignment:
Read page 272. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. When a conclusion appears at the beginning of a
paragraph, the rest of the paragraph contains
what?
2. Are conclusions at the end of a paragraph easier or
more difficult to comprehend? Why or
why not?
3. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the TIP
say?
Complete the passage.
Read page 273. Email the answers to the
following questions.
1. What helps make a river change its path?
2. How do humans change the course of a river?
3. What is silt?
4. Is silt good or bad for the land?
5. Now that there is no more silt left behind, how do
the farmers have to replenish their land?
6. What do the chemicals do if they get in the water?
7. What is one good thing that has come from damming
the Nile?
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Read page 274. Email the answers to the
following questions.
1. Where do you find many cities located on the
East Coast?
2. What is a "fall line"?
3. What were ideal locations for factories?
4. How were most of the cities on the east coast
created?
5. There is a TIP at the bottom of the page. What does
the TIP say?
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Lesson Twenty:
Assignment:
Read page 275. Email the answers to the
following questions.
1. What are values?
2. What holds a society together?
3. What are shared values?
4. What are individual values?
5. Written material contains 2 different values. What
are they?
6. What is a bias?
7. There is a TIP on the left side. What does the
TIP say?
Complete the passage on page 275.
Read page 276. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Look at the cartoon. Who is the author of this
cartoon?
2. Was permission granted to reprint this cartoon?
3. What do you think the cartoonist was trying to
portray in this cartoon?
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Read page 277. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What reshapes shorelines and beaches?
2. How does the sand get washed out to sea?
3. What are sand bars?
4. What is a long shore current?
5. What are breakwaters?
6. What are jetties?
7. What are seawalls?
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Review: Geography:
Read page 278. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Water pollution is a great
____________ to our environment.
2. Tell the "cycle of nature" and why
pollution is not just confined to one area.
3. Why do some people use water filters or drink
bottled water?
4. Where do you get lead from in drinking water?
5. What happens when lead builds up in a human body?
6. There is a TIP at the bottom. What does the TIP say?
Read page 279. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Where does the monarch butterfly winter?
2. How many colonies are there of the monarch
butterfly?
3. About _______ million monarch butterflies.
4. What has threatened the monarch's?
5. Look at the map. What color represents where the
monarch's winter?
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Read page 280. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What percentage of people live in urban areas in
the United States?
2. What problems do cities face?
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Unit Review:
Read page 281. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What causes the sea level to rise?
2. What does the black dot on the legend
represent?
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Read page 282. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. What does NAFTA stand for?
2. When did NAFTA go into effect?
3. What was the NAFTA agreement?
4. Look at the chart. What is the title of the chart?
5. Look at the chart. What years are represented?
6. Look at the chart. What is the source for
information for this chart?
7. What is containment? (Look at the last paragraph on
page 282).
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Read page 283. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Look at the cartoon. What is the caption under
the cartoon?
2. The paragraph in question 10 on page 282 is from the
______________________.
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Read page 284. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Are Senators and Representatives allowed to run
for office until they decide they no longer
want to run or do they have to
follow term limits?
2. What were some of the arguments for and against term
limits?
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Read page 285. Email the answers to the following questions.
1. Look at the map. What is the title of the map?
2. How many miles does the scale represent?
3. Which colonies are represented on the map?
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Read page 286-287. Email the answers to the following
questions.
1. What is the title of this map?
2. What does the legend represent?
3. Bosnia is located by which sea?
4. Look at the chart on the right column. What is the
title of this chart?
5. Look at the photo on page 287. Do you know the name
of this photo?
6. Look at the chart on the right side of the column on
page 287. Who has the largest
unemployment? Men or women?
7. Look at the map on the bottom of page 287.
What is the title of this map?
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1. After you have completed the Unit Review you
are ready to try the simulated test found on
page 689. Follow the Simulated
Test link.
2. You may also email us for the second Official
Practice Test.
Email Address
Williston email:
adultlearningcenter@hotmail.com
When you have completed the Social Studies section please email so you can receive a number for the next GED subject.
The posttest is found on page 649-667. The Answer Sheet is found on page 917. You have 70 minutes to answer 50 questions. Do not spend too much time on any one question. Make sure you fill in all the answers. If you are running out of time and have some questions unanswered fill in the unanswered questions. If you do not fill them in, they will be counted wrong. You may just guess a right answer.
The answers and explanations are found on page 864-869.
The Performance Analysis Chart for Social Studies is found on page 668. Please email the results of your analysis chart or email and request that the form be emailed to you to fill in and send back.
Official Half Test for Social Studies
If you would like to take the PB Version of the Official Practice Test for Social Studies email us at
Email Address
Williston email:
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and we will send it to you. Please mail the test and answer key back and your results will be emailed to you. If you score at least 450 you are ready to schedule your GED Social Studies test.
Please call Diane at 774-4228 or Jan at 774-4594 to schedule your test. If this is your first test you need to bring a photo ID, $15.00, and your demographics sheet. Any questions about the demographics, please call the Williston Adult Learning Center at 572-5886.
WEB Sites
Websites for GED Social Studies and sample tests :
http://www.gedpractice.com/
Great site. Will need to register the first time.
http://www.4tests.com/exams/examdetail.asp?eid=38
Has many pop-ups, but good GED practice.
For the next subject area link please contact:
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