Common Core Vocabulary 1
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Acre:
A measure of land
Ancestor:
Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Arctic:
The regions north of the Arctic Circle centered on the North Pole
Automobile:
4-wheeled motor vehicle
Budget:
A summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them
Business:
The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
Cacao:
Tropical American tree producing cacao beans
Canal:
Long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation
Capital:
Wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of
economic value
Chief Executive: The President
City:
A large and densely populated urban area
City Council:
A group of elected people who govern a city
City Hall:
A building that houses administrative offices of the government
Climate:
The weather in some location averaged over some long period of time
Coast:
The shore of a sea or ocean
Colonist:
A person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country
Colony:
A body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland
Community:
A district where people live
Compass:
A navigational instrument for finding directions
Congress:
The lawmaking body of a state or the nation
Constitution: Law determining the fundamental political principles of a government
Continent:
One of the seven large landmasses on the earth
Conveyor:
A moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory)
Country:
A politically organized body of people under a single government
Crops:
Plants grown to be used as food or sold for profit
Culture:
The attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization
Declaration:
A formal public statement
Desert:
An arid region with little or no vegetation
Earthquake:
Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault
plane of from volcanic activity
Elect:
Select by a vote for an office or membership
Environment: All of the surrounding things, conditions, and influences affecting the growth or development of living
things.
Equator:
An imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole
Explorer:
A person who travels to a new place to learn about it.
Freedom:
The condition of being free
Frontier:
A wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country
Glacier:
Thick sheet of ice
Government: The system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed
Grassland:
Land where grass or glasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life
Harbor:
A sheltered place along a shoreline where ships can anchor safely
Harvest:
The gathering of a ripened crop
Hinterlands:
The remote or lesser developed areas of any country
Immigrant:
A person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
Island:
A land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
Law:
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human
society
Mainland:
The main land mass of a country or continent