This document contains a list of 97 vocabulary words that are intended to be taught in 6th grade social studies. The list was last updated in September 2014 and includes terms related to geography, governments, cultures, economies, and environments from around the world. Examples of words on the list include apartheid, Arab Spring, archipelago, atoll, axis, basin, canopy, cardinal directions, and cartographer.

1. 6th Grade Social Studies Vocabulary List
Updated in September of 2014
Apartheid
Arab Spring
Archipelago
Atoll
Axis
Basin
Canopy
Cardinal Directions
Cartographer
Cash Crop
Channel
Civil War
Climate
Colony
Communism
Constitutional
Monarchy
Consumer Goods
Crevasse
Culture
Deforestation
Delta
Democracy
Desertification
Dialect
Dictatorship
Drought
Dynasty
Economic System
Emigrate
Empire
Enclave
Environment
Ethnic Group
Exclave
Export
Famine
Free Enterprise System
Genocide
Geography
Glacier
Hemisphere
High-Technology
Human Rights
Hydroelectric Power
Ice Shelf
Iceberg
Immigrant
Import
Intensive Cultivation
Irrigation
Island
Isthmus
Landform
Landlocked
Latitude
Literacy Rate
Longitude
Map Key
Megalopolis
Migrate
Monarchy
Monotheism
Monsoon
Mosque
Natural Resource
Navigable
Nomads
Non-Renewable
Resources
Oasis
Pangaea
Parliamentary
Democracy
Peninsula
Permafrost
Plain
Plantation
Plateau
Poaching
Polytheism
Population Density
Precipitation
Projection
Rain Forest
Rebellion
Refugee
Republic
Rural
Savanna
Scale
Service Industries
Socialism
Strait
Subarctic
Subsistence
Farming
Tectonic Plates
Terraced Field
Textiles
Tributary
Tsunami
Tundra
Urban
Weather
Welfare State