In this type of economy, people make economic decisions based on customs and values.
What is a traditional economy?
A group of humans with a shared culture who have organized themselves to meet their basic needs.
What is a society?
Position on the Earth’s surface.
What is location?
A government where people have supreme power.
What is a democracy?
Culture Question
True or False: Advances in technology and science often raised the standard of living because modern technology allows people to make more goods with less effort, and advances in science are part of modern medicine which can treat and prevent illnesses that were fatal in the past.
What is true?
In this economy, individual consumers and producers make economic decisions.
What is a market economy?
A group of people living in the same economic conditions.
What is a social class?
Described by human and non-human (physical characteristics).
What is place?
A government that is a form of democracy.
What is a republic?
Geography Theme Question
Considers how people affect their environments, or their natural surroundings, and how their environments affects them.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
An economy in which the central government makes all economic decisions and not individual consumers and producers.
What is a command economy?
The beliefs, customs, practices, and behaviors of a particular nation or group of people.
What is culture?
An area with at least one unique/unifying characteristic such as climate, landforms, culture or history.
What is region?
A government when a ruler or group holds power by force.
What is a dictatorship?
Geography Theme Question
Ways of showing the curved Earth on a flat surface.
What are map projections?
In this type of economy, elements of traditional, market, and command economic systems are combined.
What is a mixed economy?
A pattern of organized relationships among groups of people within a society.
What is social structure?
Goods sent out of a country.
What are exports?
Fact of My Choosing Question
The basic purposes of government.
What are to keep order, to provide services, and to protect the common good of the people?
Fact of My Choosing Question
North, south, east, and west are these types of directions.
What are cardinal directions?
True or False: A mixed economy aims to make the levels of wealth between the rich and poor more even and provides welfare benefits for poor and disabled people.
What is true?
The spread of cultural traits from one culture to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
The dependence of countries on one another.
What is interdependence?
Fact of My Choosing Question
A set of basic rules and principles for organizing and running a government.
What is a constitution?
Fact of My Choosing Question
Imaginary lines that run North or South of the equator.
What are latitude lines?