3rd Grade Social Studies
GPS
Overall Test
of What you
KNOW!
$100
Which of the following is an example
of a natural resource?
The wheat grown in
A: the field harvested to
make bread.
B:
an oven used to bake
the bread
C: A person who opens a
D:
The cook who
prepares the bread.
bakery
a. The wheat
grown in the field
harvested to
make bread.
$200
Where did the first Olympics take place?
A: Atlanta
B:
C: Greece
D: Mexico
Italy
c. Greece
$300
Who led strikes and boycotts to help end the
unfair treatment of farm and migrant workers??
A: Cesar Chavez
B:
C: Lyndon B. Johnson
D: Paul Revere
Susan B. Anthony
a. Cesar
Chavez
$500
Which branch of government decides what laws mean
and whether or not someone obeys them?
A: Legislative
B:
Executive
C: Judicial
D:
Congress
c. Judicial
$1000
Someone who works hard over a long period of time
has ___________________.
A: justice
B:
diligence
C: segregation
D:
respect
b. Diligence
$2000
What type of column is pictured?
A: Doric
B:
Ionic
C: Corinthian
D:
architecture
a. Doric
$4000
Which of these buildings show the
influence of Greek architecture?
A: Tall skyscrapers with
B:
Courthouses with tall
columns
D:
tents
lots of floors
C: Long, low houses
b.
Courthouses
with tall
columns
$8000
Which is a responsibility of the national government?
A: City police protection
B:
County schools
C: The military
D:
State highways
c. The
military
$16,000
Which of these American leaders led the
United States during World War II?
A: Abraham Lincoln
B:
Paul Revere
C: Lyndon B. Johnson
D:
Franklin Roosevelt
d. Franklin
Roosevelt
$32,000
Democracy in the United States is different from
democracy in ancient Greece because
People younger than 18
A: cannot discuss
important issues in the
United States.
U.S. citizens make
C: decisions directly
without any leadership.
B:
U.S. citizens choose
representatives to lead
government.
D:
Only men who own
property can be elected
in the United States.
b. U.S. citizens
choose
representatives to
lead government.
$64,000
Why was it illegal for
Susan B. Anthony to vote?
A: She was not 18 years
B:
old
C: She wasn’t born in the
United States
D:
She was African
American
She was a woman
d. She was a
woman.
$125,000
The Colorado River
begins in the _______.
A: Okefenokee Swamp
B:
Appalachian
Mountains
Great Lakes
C:
D: Rocky Mountains
d. Rocky
Mountains
$250,000
Which line is used as a starting point
to measure latitude?
A: Prime meridian
B:
O°N
C: equator
D:
longitude
C. equator
$500,000
Which of these is part of
Georgia’s state government?
A: General Assembly
B:
Congress
C: City Council
D:
County board of
commissioners
a. General
Assembly
$1,000,000
Which character trait is shown by accepting people
who are different that we are?
A: diligence
B: tolerance
C: Respect for authority
D: liberty
b. tolerance
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