Market Structures
Common Knowledge
Decision Making
Environment and the Economy
Planet Earth
100
Citizens own their own goods and property, and are allowed to produce and consume whatever they would like.
What is a Market Economy?
100
A reward for doing something that would not happen otherwise
What is an Incentive?
100
How did only growing potatoes impact the people of Ireland?
What is no other food source when disease spread through potatoes?
100
Why do humans interact with the environment? (Multiple Answer)
Up to Renfrow
100
What is deforestation?
What is the removal of forests from Earth's surface?
200
In a command economy, who makes the economic decisions?
What is the government?
200
What is the name of the group of countries that specialize in petroleum products?
What is OPEC?
200
How many people died during the 100 Day war in Rwanda?
800,000
200
What can be a negative impact if hunting did not occur?
Overpopulation of animals, both predator and prey answers accepted.
200
What is a reason that humans are using deforestation?
What is to build homes?
What is to use more supplies?
What is to create cropland?
300
People are free to produce and consume what they want, as long as it is LEGAL to do so.
What is a Mixed Economy?
300
What does OPEC stand for?
What is Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries?
300
What is an economic disadvantage of coal being a main resource in Kentucky?
When we are going away from coal, coal mine jobs are needed less.
300
What is a cost of drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico?
What is negative impact on environment, killing thousands of animals?
300
Why would we drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico?
What is monetary value of oil?
400
In a traditional setting, what type of interaction would promote economic growth without monetary exchange?
What is Bartering?
400
Where does the majority of the worlds oil come from?
What is the Middle East?
400
According to this chart, what can be said about the impact of production jobs moving to China?
What is more air pollution in China?
400
What is a benefit of hunting, and what is a negative of hunting, when relating to environmental impact?
Answer choices vary, up to Renfrow.
400
What is the meaning of water shortage or water crisis?
When there is not enough usable water in the area to support and sustain life.
500
Define the following market structures:
Private ownership of property and resources.
AND
Central ownership of property and resources
What is Free Market AND Command
500
What nation has the largest un-tapped oil reserve in the world?
What is the United States?
500
Name two ways that coal mining has impacted the environment of Kentucky. This can be good or bad.
What is erosion from inadequate repair of environment?
What is leaving land unusable?
What is creating new watersheds?
500
Name two key differences between how Native Americans and the British viewed the relationship with nature.
Native Americans viewed that we lived alongside nature.
British believed we owned nature.
500
What is the importance of favelas that we learned in class? Include specific details you remember about this assignment.
Any information from favelas is acceptable.