Geography & Maps
This type of map feature includes mountains, rivers, and deserts.
What is a physical map?
This type of pollution happens when harmful chemicals enter rivers and lakes.
What is water pollution?
Countries exchange goods and services through this process.
What is trade?
In this economy, the government controls major economic decisions.
What is a command economy?
In this type of democracy, citizens elect representatives to parliament.
What is a parliamentary democracy?
These lines separate countries, states, or regions.
What are political boundaries?
This environmental problem forms when pollution mixes with moisture in the atmosphere.
What is acid rain?
This occurs when a country focuses on producing certain goods efficiently.
What is specialization?
In this economy, businesses and consumers make most economic decisions.
What is a market economy?
This historical process influenced religion and culture in many regions.
What is colonization?
These large bodies of water are important to both the United States and Canada.
What are the Great Lakes?
Cutting down large numbers of trees is called this.
What is deforestation?
A tax placed on imported goods is called this.
What is a tariff?
This economy combines elements of both command and market economies.
What is a mixed economy?
People may seek this when they want to separate from another country.
What is independence?
This type of location describes a place based on nearby landmarks or places.
What is relative location?
Countries often work together to solve these kinds of environmental issues.
What are environmental problems?
This trade restriction completely stops trade with another country.
What is an embargo?
This measures the total value of goods and services produced in a country.
What is GDP?
This financial tool helps people plan spending and saving.
What is a budget?
These areas often have low population density because of very little rainfall.
What are deserts?
This can happen to wildlife when water systems become polluted.
What is harm to wildlife?
Competition between countries can improve these two things.
What are prices and quality?
Education and job training improve this type of capital.
What is human capital?
Using this can be risky because it may lead to debt.
What is credit?