Geography
Economics
Government
LA' s Early People
Louisiana's Resources
100
Louisiana's natural boundaries.
What is 31N latitude, 33N latitude, and 94W longitude?
100
Louisiana's government divisions.
What is parishes?
100
Scientist who study items left behind by ancient peoples.
What is an archaeologists?
100
Types of resources.
What is natural resources, human resources, and capitol resources?
200
Types of lakes.
What is cutoff lakes, raft lakes, and marsh lakes?
200
The four basic economic questions.
What is what to produce, how to produce, how much to produce, and for whom to produce.
200
5 executive state officials.
What is the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, and the treasurer?
200
A group of people who share a common ancestry, language, name, and way of living.
What is a tribe?
200
Biological resources that are plants and animals.
What is flora and fauna?
300
Used to measure tornadoes and hurricanes.
What is the Fugita scale and the Saffir-Simpson scale?
300
A steady increase in the consumer price index.
What is inflation?
300
someone who tries to influence a legislator about a proposed law.
What is a lobbyists?
300
The migration route when the earliest people came to America.
What is the Berling Land Bridge?
300
Organic substances that were formed by Earth's geological process.
What is mineral resources?
400
Built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to control flooding and prevent the Mississippi from changing course.
What is the Old River Control Structure?
400
Taxes on imported goods.
What is tariffs?
400
Types of taxes and how each one is different.
What is sales tax: charged on items that are sold. Excise tax: is imposed on specific products such as gasoline, alcohol, soda, and cigarettes. Severance tax: charged for removing natural resources from the state. Income tax: paid by individual citizens each year. Property tax: homeowners pays property tax only above the value set by the homestead exemption?
400
A tribal symbol.
What is a totem?
400
A decade when oil was a big deal.
What is the oil boom in the 1970's?
500
Louisiana's five natural regions
What is Hill, Terraces, Marsh, Mississippi Floodplain, and the Red River Valley?
500
An agreement that removed trade restrictions between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
What is the NAFTA
500
Members from both the senate and the house that revise bills that have been rejected so that it can be resubmitted to both chambers for another vote.
What is the conference committee?
500
A large complex of mounds built by the Neo Indians.
What is the Poverty Point site?
500
When people want and need more than than the available resources can provide.
What is scarcity?
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