FTCE SOCIAL SCIENCE 6-12 FINAL EXAM
PAPER 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
◉ Galileo. Answer: 1564-1642. Invented the telescope and advanced
Copernicus' theory that the earth revolved around the sun
◉ Longitude. Answer: Has no important influence over climate
◉ Latitude. Answer: primary influence of earth's climate
◉ Elevation, altitude, and ocean currents. Answer: secondary
influences on climate
◉ Tropical Rainforests. Answer: Soil erosion is most likely to occur
due to the constant rainfall
◉ Deserts. Answer: Have almost no soil erosion due to their climate
◉ The Kalahari. Answer: Located between the Orange and Zambezi
Rivers and has an annual rainfall of about 5-20 inches
,◉ The Namib. Answer: A desert, rocky plateau along the coast of
Namibia in SW Africa that receives less than .5 inches of rain
annually
◉ The Great Rift Valley. Answer: A fault system that runs 3000 miles
from Syria to Mozambique and has great variations of elevation
◉ The Sahel. Answer: Region of Africa South of the Sahara and
extending East and West from Senegal to Somalia. Experienced
serious drought in the 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s.
◉ Meridians. Answer: lines of longitude that determine time zones
and time around the world
◉ Yangtze River. Answer: Runs from Tibet through China and flows
East. Longest river in China
◉ Nile River. Answer: Flows from Central Africa North to the
Mediterranean Sea. The Nile River Delta is in Egypt.
◉ The Ganges River. Answer: runs northeast through India across
the plains to the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh. Considered the most
sacred river in India according to the Hindus
,◉ Geographer. Answer: Studies mostly locations, conditions, and
spatial relations
◉ Cartographer. Answer: People who make maps
◉ Demographer. Answer: Concerned with the study of human
population
◉ Adam Smith. Answer: Father of modern economics.
◉ Wealth of Nations. Answer: Written by Adam Smith; advocated for
little or no government interference in the economy. Smith claimed
that individuals' self-interest would bring about the public's welfare.
Smith was firmly against free market systems of monopoly power
and warned that the private sector, if left unregulated, could
potentially stand in opposition to the public welfare
◉ John Maynard Keynes. Answer: Advocated an economic system in
which government regulations and spending on public works would
stimulate the economy and lead to full employment
Says that capitalism could be maintained if there were sufficient
checks on the economy.
, Disagreed with the idea that free markets led to prosperity
◉ John Stuart Mill. Answer: Progressive British philosopher and
economist whose ideas came closer to socialism than to the classical
capitalist ideas of Adam Smith. Advocated for emancipation for
women, labor organizations, and farming cooperatives
◉ Thomas Malthus. Answer: Believed that population growth would
seriously affect a nation's productive capabilities
◉ Karl Marx. Answer: Founder of socialism and communism
◉ Max Weber. Answer: Concerned with examining social and
environmental roles in the rise of capitalism, such as religion and its
influence on the economy.
◉ John Locke. Answer: Wrote Two Treaties of Government. Rights of
the people to rebel against an unjust government . US Constitution
based on this idea
◉ John Stuart Mill. Answer: Proposed equal division of profits
among employers and workers
PAPER 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
◉ Galileo. Answer: 1564-1642. Invented the telescope and advanced
Copernicus' theory that the earth revolved around the sun
◉ Longitude. Answer: Has no important influence over climate
◉ Latitude. Answer: primary influence of earth's climate
◉ Elevation, altitude, and ocean currents. Answer: secondary
influences on climate
◉ Tropical Rainforests. Answer: Soil erosion is most likely to occur
due to the constant rainfall
◉ Deserts. Answer: Have almost no soil erosion due to their climate
◉ The Kalahari. Answer: Located between the Orange and Zambezi
Rivers and has an annual rainfall of about 5-20 inches
,◉ The Namib. Answer: A desert, rocky plateau along the coast of
Namibia in SW Africa that receives less than .5 inches of rain
annually
◉ The Great Rift Valley. Answer: A fault system that runs 3000 miles
from Syria to Mozambique and has great variations of elevation
◉ The Sahel. Answer: Region of Africa South of the Sahara and
extending East and West from Senegal to Somalia. Experienced
serious drought in the 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s.
◉ Meridians. Answer: lines of longitude that determine time zones
and time around the world
◉ Yangtze River. Answer: Runs from Tibet through China and flows
East. Longest river in China
◉ Nile River. Answer: Flows from Central Africa North to the
Mediterranean Sea. The Nile River Delta is in Egypt.
◉ The Ganges River. Answer: runs northeast through India across
the plains to the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh. Considered the most
sacred river in India according to the Hindus
,◉ Geographer. Answer: Studies mostly locations, conditions, and
spatial relations
◉ Cartographer. Answer: People who make maps
◉ Demographer. Answer: Concerned with the study of human
population
◉ Adam Smith. Answer: Father of modern economics.
◉ Wealth of Nations. Answer: Written by Adam Smith; advocated for
little or no government interference in the economy. Smith claimed
that individuals' self-interest would bring about the public's welfare.
Smith was firmly against free market systems of monopoly power
and warned that the private sector, if left unregulated, could
potentially stand in opposition to the public welfare
◉ John Maynard Keynes. Answer: Advocated an economic system in
which government regulations and spending on public works would
stimulate the economy and lead to full employment
Says that capitalism could be maintained if there were sufficient
checks on the economy.
, Disagreed with the idea that free markets led to prosperity
◉ John Stuart Mill. Answer: Progressive British philosopher and
economist whose ideas came closer to socialism than to the classical
capitalist ideas of Adam Smith. Advocated for emancipation for
women, labor organizations, and farming cooperatives
◉ Thomas Malthus. Answer: Believed that population growth would
seriously affect a nation's productive capabilities
◉ Karl Marx. Answer: Founder of socialism and communism
◉ Max Weber. Answer: Concerned with examining social and
environmental roles in the rise of capitalism, such as religion and its
influence on the economy.
◉ John Locke. Answer: Wrote Two Treaties of Government. Rights of
the people to rebel against an unjust government . US Constitution
based on this idea
◉ John Stuart Mill. Answer: Proposed equal division of profits
among employers and workers
