FTCE K-6 SOCIAL SCIENCE EXAMS 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔27 - ✔✔How many amendment are there?
✔✔Executive branch - ✔✔President, Vice President. Elected 4 years. Enforces the
laws. Appoints Supreme Court nominees, and Vetos laws passed by congress;
established by article III ( four sections) of the constitution.
✔✔Legislative Branch - ✔✔Congress (house of representatives and senate).Makes the
laws. Must approve Supreme Court nominees; can override presidential veto; can
impeach president or Supreme Court justices. Established by article I ( nine sections) of
the constitution.
✔✔Judicial Branch - ✔✔Supreme Court; appointed by the present and approved by
congress; serves for life; interprets the laws; can declare laws or presidential actions
unconstitutional. Established by Article III (three sections) of the constitution.
✔✔2 years - ✔✔How many years do members of the House of Representatives serve?
✔✔6 years - ✔✔How many years does the senate serve?
✔✔Popular sovereignty - ✔✔The right of the people to rule through voting
✔✔Limited government - ✔✔The gov. Can only do the duties assigned to it by the
constitution and members of the government are not above the law
✔✔Federalism - ✔✔The Devision of power between national and state governments
✔✔Checks and balances - ✔✔The ability of each branch to limit the power of the other
branches
✔✔Flexibility - ✔✔The ability of the constitution to adapt with the times as necessary
✔✔Federal system - ✔✔Power divided between the national and state government
✔✔Delegated Powers - ✔✔Powers allocated to the national gov. (Military, warfare,
interstate commerce, dining money)
✔✔Reserved Powers - ✔✔Power the belong to the states (professional licensing,
interstate commerce, establishing schools)
✔✔Concurrent Powers - ✔✔Powers shared by both the national and state gov.
(Taxation, making laws, having courts)
, ✔✔Local governments - ✔✔There are ______governments in each state
✔✔Separation of powers - ✔✔Ensures that no one person or group has all the power
✔✔Biomes - ✔✔Large areas that have distinct sets of plant and animal life that are well
adapted to the environment.
✔✔Alpine - ✔✔Mountain regions that are cold and snowy
✔✔Chaparral - ✔✔Hot and dry; landscape varies. Could contain plains hills and or
mountains
✔✔Deciduous forest - ✔✔Corsican many trees; four distinct seasons
✔✔Desert - ✔✔Flat land with very little precipitation
✔✔Grasslands - ✔✔Interior flatlands with lots of grass and other low plant life; tropical
or temperate climate
✔✔Rainforest - ✔✔Tropical climate; dense vegetation
✔✔Savanna - ✔✔Grasslands with warm temp. Year round with a dry and rainy season
✔✔Taiga - ✔✔Cold, snowy winters and warm humid summers
✔✔Tundra - ✔✔Very cold; little vegetation; polar climate
✔✔Archipelago - ✔✔Chain of islands; Hawaii; Japan
✔✔Bay - ✔✔A body of water that is an inlet to a larger body of water such as an ocean
or sea. San Francisco Bay; Bay of Bengal
✔✔Canal - ✔✔A man made waterway. Erie Canal, Panama
✔✔Channel - ✔✔A narrow body of water that connects two other bodies of water
✔✔Delta - ✔✔Low, wet, triangular piece of land at the mouth of a river. Mississippi
delta, Nile delta
✔✔Desert - ✔✔Area with little to no precipitation
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔27 - ✔✔How many amendment are there?
✔✔Executive branch - ✔✔President, Vice President. Elected 4 years. Enforces the
laws. Appoints Supreme Court nominees, and Vetos laws passed by congress;
established by article III ( four sections) of the constitution.
✔✔Legislative Branch - ✔✔Congress (house of representatives and senate).Makes the
laws. Must approve Supreme Court nominees; can override presidential veto; can
impeach president or Supreme Court justices. Established by article I ( nine sections) of
the constitution.
✔✔Judicial Branch - ✔✔Supreme Court; appointed by the present and approved by
congress; serves for life; interprets the laws; can declare laws or presidential actions
unconstitutional. Established by Article III (three sections) of the constitution.
✔✔2 years - ✔✔How many years do members of the House of Representatives serve?
✔✔6 years - ✔✔How many years does the senate serve?
✔✔Popular sovereignty - ✔✔The right of the people to rule through voting
✔✔Limited government - ✔✔The gov. Can only do the duties assigned to it by the
constitution and members of the government are not above the law
✔✔Federalism - ✔✔The Devision of power between national and state governments
✔✔Checks and balances - ✔✔The ability of each branch to limit the power of the other
branches
✔✔Flexibility - ✔✔The ability of the constitution to adapt with the times as necessary
✔✔Federal system - ✔✔Power divided between the national and state government
✔✔Delegated Powers - ✔✔Powers allocated to the national gov. (Military, warfare,
interstate commerce, dining money)
✔✔Reserved Powers - ✔✔Power the belong to the states (professional licensing,
interstate commerce, establishing schools)
✔✔Concurrent Powers - ✔✔Powers shared by both the national and state gov.
(Taxation, making laws, having courts)
, ✔✔Local governments - ✔✔There are ______governments in each state
✔✔Separation of powers - ✔✔Ensures that no one person or group has all the power
✔✔Biomes - ✔✔Large areas that have distinct sets of plant and animal life that are well
adapted to the environment.
✔✔Alpine - ✔✔Mountain regions that are cold and snowy
✔✔Chaparral - ✔✔Hot and dry; landscape varies. Could contain plains hills and or
mountains
✔✔Deciduous forest - ✔✔Corsican many trees; four distinct seasons
✔✔Desert - ✔✔Flat land with very little precipitation
✔✔Grasslands - ✔✔Interior flatlands with lots of grass and other low plant life; tropical
or temperate climate
✔✔Rainforest - ✔✔Tropical climate; dense vegetation
✔✔Savanna - ✔✔Grasslands with warm temp. Year round with a dry and rainy season
✔✔Taiga - ✔✔Cold, snowy winters and warm humid summers
✔✔Tundra - ✔✔Very cold; little vegetation; polar climate
✔✔Archipelago - ✔✔Chain of islands; Hawaii; Japan
✔✔Bay - ✔✔A body of water that is an inlet to a larger body of water such as an ocean
or sea. San Francisco Bay; Bay of Bengal
✔✔Canal - ✔✔A man made waterway. Erie Canal, Panama
✔✔Channel - ✔✔A narrow body of water that connects two other bodies of water
✔✔Delta - ✔✔Low, wet, triangular piece of land at the mouth of a river. Mississippi
delta, Nile delta
✔✔Desert - ✔✔Area with little to no precipitation
