Geography
This imaginary line divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
Equator
100: The ability to read and write is called this.
Literacy or being literate
100: A tax a country places on imported goods.
Tariff
100: A government where citizens vote for leaders to make decisions.
Answer: What is a democracy?
100: The main goal of a country is for all of its citizens to be able to do this.
Answer: What is read and write?
Lines that run east to west and measure distance north or south of the Equator.
Latitude
200: This term refers to the knowledge, skills, and abilities workers bring to a job.
Human captial
200: A limit on the amount of a good a country will allow to be imported.
Quota
200: In this type of democracy, citizens vote directly their leader
Answer: What is a presidential democracy?
200: These are natural, human, and capital resources used to make goods and services.
Answer: What are the factors of production/factors of economic growth
Lines that run north to south and measure distance east or west of the Prime Meridian.
Longitude
300: Countries with high literacy rates usually have this type of workforce.
Skilled, literate, educated
300: When a country stops all trade with another country, it is called this.
Embargo
300: A king or queen has total control in this type of monarchy.
Answer: What is an absolute monarchy?
300: This type of economy lets people decide what to buy, sell, and produce.
What is market economy?
400: The exact spot on Earth where something is located, often given with latitude and longitude coordinates.
Absolute location
400: One reason poor countries struggle to teach their citizens to read and write is they often lack this.
Answer: What are schools, teachers, or funding?
400: Countries set up trade barriers to do this for their own businesses.
Answer: What is protect them or protect jobs?
400: In this type of government, a small group of people hold all the power.
Answer: What is an oligarchy?
400: A mixed economy combines features of this and a market economy.
On a map, this shows the four main directions plus northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest.
Compass rose with intermediate directions
500: Investing in human capital helps a country’s what?
Economy/ GDP
Why would a country put an embargo on another country?
To punish the country economically, (ex. war)
500: This government type is based on religious law and leaders.
What is a theocracy?
500: When a country invests in human capital, capital goods, and natural resources, it is investing in these.
Answer: What are the factors of production/economic growth?