WHERE WE LIVE
A student lives 15 miles outside the nearest town in an area surrounded by farms and ranches. Which vocabulary term describes this area, and how is it different from an urban area?
What is Rural? Rural areas have smaller populations and more open land, while urban areas have larger populations, cities, and more businesses.
These goods are bought from another country and brought into the United States.
What are Imports?
In this type of government, the people have power directly or through elected officials.
What is a Democracy?
War, poverty, oppression, and persecution are examples of reasons people leave their homeland.
What are Push Factors?
This belief says people can achieve success through ambition, talent, and hard work.
What is the American Dream?
This is the study of Earth, its land, and its people.
What is Geography?
These goods are sold and sent out of the United States to another country.
What are Exports?
In this government, power belongs to a king or queen and is usually passed down through a family.
What is a Monarchy?
Freedom, jobs, safety, and better opportunities are reasons immigrants may be attracted to a country.
What are Pull Factors?
A person opens a bakery, decides what products to sell, sets the prices, and keeps the profits. Which economic system allows these choices?
What is Free Enterprise? Individuals can own businesses and decide what to produce and sell.
Cities with large populations, many businesses, and numerous conveniences are described by this word.
What is Urban?
The government collects this money to help pay for roads, bridges, schools, and other public services.
What are Taxes?
Break down the word Democracy
Demo=people
Cracy=power
This word describes a country or community made up of people from many different cultures.
What is Multicultural?
In this economic system, individuals may own businesses and decide what goods to produce.
What is Free Enterprise?
Farms, ranches, open land, and smaller populations are usually found in this type of area.
What is Rural?
An American store purchases shoes made in another country. Later, an American farmer sells cotton to that same country. Identify both types of trade.
The shoes are Imports, and the cotton is an Export.
These first ten amendments to the Constitution protect individual freedoms.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This important central waterway helped transportation, trade, farming, and settlement in the United States.
What is the Mississippi River?
This term describes the growth of factories and machine-made goods.
What is Industrialization?
This grass-covered region west of the Mississippi River contains flat and rolling land.
What are The Great Plains?
This is the study of how people and nations choose to use their limited resources.
What is Economics?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are examples of these rights that cannot be taken away.
What are Inalienable Rights?
A family leaves its country because of war and moves to the United States because of better job opportunities. Identify the push factor and the pull factor.
The Push Factor is war. The Pull Factor is better job opportunities.
This French term describes a government policy of staying mostly hands-off from businesses and the economy.
What is Laissez-faire?