📝 Interactive Worksheet 10: Vocabulary & Command Words
FY8E Social Science 2026 — fill it in, check the key, print it
VOCABULARY & COMMAND WORDS
All strands - preparation for Section B and Short Answers
Name: Class: Date:
TASK 1 — Command words: match to what they ask you to do
Command word
What it wants
State / Name
a short reason, two or more sentences, with an example
List
a one-line fact
Define
give the meaning of a term
Describe
write down points one after another
Explain / Discuss
give details of what something is like
TASK 2 — Glossary: write the meaning of each key term
Term
Meaning
Sustainability
Interdependence
Contemporary measures
Traditional knowledge
Apartheid
Globalisation
Budgeting
Epidemic / Pandemic
Topography
Colonisation
TASK 3 — Improve these weak answers
Q: Explain one way climate change affects people. Weak answer: "it is bad".
Better answer:
ANSWER KEY (for self-marking)
• VOCABULARY & COMMAND WORDS
• Task 1: State/Name = a one-line fact; List = points one after another; Define = give the meaning; Describe = give details of what it is like; Explain/Discuss = short reason, 2+ sentences with an example.
• Sustainability - using resources so they last for the future. Interdependence - relying on each other to reach a goal.
• Contemporary measures - new technology and rules against pollution. Traditional knowledge - practices passed down generations. Apartheid - racial separation laws in old South Africa. Globalisation - world interchange of views, goods, ideas, culture. Budgeting - planning income and spending. Epidemic - disease spreading quickly in one area; pandemic - across the world. Topography - the shape of the land. Colonisation - settling to control another area.
• Task 3: e.g. "Climate change brings longer droughts, so farmers lose crops and food prices rise, making life harder for families."