Third Grade Social Studies Jeopardy
Questions and Answers
100 Freedoms which are protected by the
government
(rights)
200 The duty to take care of oneself, respect
the rights of others, and obey rules and laws
(responsibility)
300 The duties, rights, and privileges of being
a member of a nation
(citizenship)
400 Type of government in which people are
elected as representatives to run the government
(republican)
500 Privileges that people are born with and
that can't be taken away (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
(inalienable rights)
100 The first permanent English settlement
(Jamestown)
200 The country that sponsored Columbus's first trip
across the Atlantic
(Spain)
300 One obstacle that was encountered by early explorers
(starvation, disease, small ships,
weather, poor maps, Indians)
400 The first permanent Spanish settlement
(St. Augustine)
500 He established the first permanent French
settlement in Quebec, Canada
(de Champlain)
100 All working Americans pay these to provide government
services
(taxes)
200 If you want to buy ice cream and a soda,
but you choose just ice cream, the soda becomes this.
(opportunity cost)
300 This occurs when people concentrate on the
production of selected kinds of goods and services
(specialization)
400 This occurs when people depend on one another for
goods and services
(interdependence)
500 This lack of supplies occurs
when wants
are greater than resources can provide
(scarcity)
100 Country life community in which farms and
houses are located miles apart
(rural community)
200 Homes of Eastern Woodlands Indians
(longhouses)
300 Money paid by banks on savings accounts
(interest)
400 Method of measuring distance on a map
(scale)
500 Written language of the Ancient Egyptians
(hieroglyphics)
100 The type of government to settlers copied from
England
(representative)
200 Slavery was introduced to help produce
more of this
(tobacco)
300 The type of trade used between the settlers and the
English
(bartering)
400 Groups of men in London who helped pay for the
first settlers to come to Virginia
(trading companies)
500 The King of England appointed one of these
to rule the colonies
(royal governor)
100 The first leader of Jamestown
(Captain John Smith)
200 The leader of the Indians in Jamestown
(Powhatan)
300 He sponsored the first Jamestown
settlement
(King James I)
400 The first money-making crop of Virginia
(tobacco)
500 A person who agreed to work for 7 years
without pay in exchange for passage to America
(indentured servant)
200 Places that have common characteristics
with no specific boundaries
(regions)
400 Forests and woodlands are located in this
area of the United States
(the east coast)
600 Deserts can be found mostly in this region
(Southwest)
800 The largest mountains and valleys can be
found here
(West Coast)
1000 The Midwest is composed of this type of
land
(grasslands)
200 100 years ago, these Americans were not
allowed to vote
(women and African Americans)
400 She led the fight for women's rights to
vote
(Susan B. Anthony)
600 He worked for non-violent means to achieve
rights for African Americans
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
800 These rights guaranteed that all Americans
would be treated equally
(Civil Rights)
1000 She refused to give up her seat on a bus
for a white man
(Rosa Parks)
Ancient Greece
200 Greece is located on this continent
(Europe)
400 This important building in Athens was a temple to the
goddess Athena
(Parthenon)
600 A crop that grew well in Greece
(olive trees, grapes)
800 The Olympic games began in Greece to honor
this god
(Zeus)
1000 Greece was known as the birthplace of this
form of government
(democracy)
Ancient Rome
200 The only people who could
vote in Ancient Rome
(men who were citizens)
400 Ancient Rome was located on this sea
(Mediterranean)
600 Miles of these supplied cities with water
(aqueducts)
800 Huge structure in which the gladiator
fights were held
(Coliseum
1000 The form of government developed in
Ancient Rome
(republican)
200 This imaginary line divides the earth into Northern and
Southern hemispheres
(equator)
400 Half of a sphere
(hemisphere)
600 Imaginary lines drawn from East to West on maps and
globes
(parallels of latitude)
800 Imaginary lines drawn from North to South on maps and
globes
(meridians of longitude)
1000 This imaginary line divides the globe into Eastern and
Western hemispheres
(prime meridian)
200 National bird of the United States
(bald eagle)
400 State bird of Virginia
(dogwood)
600 Day we celebrate America's birthday
(Independence Day - July 4th)
800 He proved that electricity was present in
lightning through a kite experiment
(Ben Franklin)
1000 Goods made by people which are used to
produce other goods and services
(capital resources)
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