| A | B |
| opportunity | a chance for something better to happen |
| custom | a way of doing things |
| ancestor | relative wo lived long ago |
| citizen | an official member of a community |
| immigrant | a person who moves into a country to live there |
| ethnic group | a group of people who have the same culture |
| symbol | something that stands for something else |
| migration | moving from one part of the country to live in another part |
| Great Migration | the movement of African Americans from the South to the North in the early 1900's |
| compass rose | a symbol on a map that shows directions |
| cardinal directions | on a map - north, south, east and west |
| intermediate direction | a direction in the middle of two cardinal directions such as northeast or southwest |
| northwest | intermediate direction between north and west |
| southeast | intermediate direction between south and east |
| southwest | intermediate direction between south and west |
| northeast | intermediate direction between north and east |
| holiday | a special day to remember an important person or event |
| tradition | a special way that a group does something which is part of their culture |
| sphere | an object that is shaped like a ball |
| equator | a line drawn around the middle of a globe |
| hemisphere | on half of the earth |
| Northern Hemisphere | the half of the earth north of the equator |
| Southern Hemisphere | the half of the earth south of the equator |
| prime meridian | a line on a globe that goes from the North Pole to the South Pole |
| livestock | farm animals |
| Civil Rights Movement | working for equal treatment for all people |