Money Money Money
What is income?
The amount of money earned or received
In Social Studies, THIS word means "to divide".
What is partition?
What is the difference between and export and an import?
Export = goods leaving a country
Imports = good being brought into a country
What type of government is based on religion?
What is a theocracy?
What is the difference between irrigation and agriculture?
Irrigation: Humans watering crops
Agriculture: Any and everything on the farm
What is Budget?
A plan that balances expenses and income
What is the difference between majority and minority?
Majority = More than Half
Minority = Less than Half
Machines, trucks, scissors, glue, and heat are all examples of which factor of economic growth?
What is a capital good?
Describe how the head of state is chosen in a Parliamentary Democracy.
The citizen directly for for representatives to be in the parliament/legislature; THEN the legislature choses the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister is the head of government in a Parliamentary Democracy.
This ethnic group lives on the coast of East Africa. Practices Islam and speaks a Bantu and Swahili?
Who are the Swahili?
What is the difference between a non-essential expense and a essential expense?
An essential expense expenses for things that are necessary to live AND a non-essential expense are expenses for things that are nice to have but not needed to live
DOUBLE POINTS
This is the belief that Jews should have a country in their ancient homeland of Zion (Palestine)
What is Zionism?
What is being described: the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise
What is Infrastructure?
Saudi Arabia has a government where the King has unlimited power/control. What type of government is that?
What is an Autocratic Monarchy?
What land is known as the "transitional (semi-arid) land" in Africa that is in-between the savanna and the desert?
What is the Sahel?
DOUBLE POINTS
What is the difference between a debit card and a credit card?
A debit card is payment that uses your money in the bank and a credit card is borrowing money that must be repaid
This is was the British and French make a secret agreement to divide the Ottoman Empire between them at the end of WWI. What document was this?
What is Sykes-Picot Agreement?
What is the difference with a country having a command economy versus a market economy?
Command = an economic system in which the government answers the 3 economic questions
Market = an economic system in which supply and demand answer the 3 economic questions
Iran’s government could be called an ____________ _________ or a theocratic republic because the government is based on religious principles and the wishes of its people.
What is an Islamic Republic?
Contamination of water sources that it unusable for drinking, cooking, and other activities; leading to water scarcity is called what?
What is water pollution?
Explain how interest and investing are NOT the same thing.
Interest = fees paid for using credit/credit card; OR money that is earned from a savings account
Investing = spending money in the hopes of earning more money
The United States were involved in what wars in the Middle East? (Hint: 1991, 2001,2003)
Persian Gulf War (1991)
9-11 Attacks/War in Afghanistan (2001)
The United States Invades Iraq (2003)
DOUBLE POINTS
What is the difference between a private sector and a public sector?
Public Sector = run/owned by the government
Private Sector = run/owned by a citizen(s)
Iran’s government could be called an Islamic republic or a theocratic republic. This is because the government follows strict _________ law, also known as _________ Law. The government is based on religious principles and the wishes of its people.
What is Islamic & Sharia Law
The belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a spirit
What is Animism?