Geography
This mountain range runs along the western side of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This economic system is based on supply and demand with little government control.
What is a market economy?
Cutting down large numbers of trees in the Amazon rainforest is called what?
What is deforestation?
In this type of government, citizens vote for their leaders.
What is a democracy?
This war ended in 1918 and helped lead to the Treaty of Versailles.
What is World War I?
This country is located north of the United States and has provinces like Quebec.
What is Canada?
In this economic system, the government controls production and prices.
What is a command economy?
This environmental problem occurs when pollution from factories mixes with rain and damages forests and lakes in Europe.
What is acid rain?
This form of democracy has a prime minister chosen by parliament.
What is a parliamentary democracy?
The Treaty of Versailles blamed this country and punished them after World War I.
What is Germany?
Many people live in coastal areas because these places usually have better climate and access to trade. What factor is this describing?
What is location?
When countries focus on producing goods they are best at making, it is called what?
What is specialization?
This nuclear disaster happened in Ukraine in 1986.
What is Chernobyl?
The United Kingdom and Germany use this type of democratic government.
What is parliamentary democracy?
This political movement led by Adolf Hitler caused the rise of a dictatorship in Germany.
What is Nazism?
Why do many people live in southern Canada instead of the northern part?
What is Because the climate is warmer and better for farming and jobs.
Taxes placed on imported goods are called what?
What are tariffs?
Air pollution in the United Kingdom is mainly caused by what two things?
Factories and vehicles burning fossil fuels.
This type of government has a president elected separately from the legislature.
What is presidential democracy?
The murder of millions of Jewish people during World War II is called what?
What is the Holocaust?
How can natural resources affect where people live and work in Latin America?
What is people often live near resources like oil, minerals, or farmland because they provide jobs and economic opportunities.
What organization allows many European countries to trade easily and cooperate economically?
What is the European Union?
Explain one environmental issue in Latin America and its effect on people or ecosystems.
Example: Deforestation destroys habitats and contributes to climate change.
How do citizens participate in democratic governments?
Voting, participating in elections, speaking out, or joining political groups.
This event in 1990 reunited East and West Germany and helped end Cold War tensions.
What is German reunification?