A
To change from one form to another.
convert
The advantage gained in being able to produce something at a lower cost than anyone else.
comparitive advantage
A statement accepted as true without proof; a belief.
assumption
A word that sounds like another word but is spelled differently and has a different meaning.
homonym
A political and economic system that does away with private property and places production under government control.
communism
Bill of Rights
The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
A person who wants to maintain traditional and established values and practices.
conservative
The air surrounding a planet.
atmosphere
capitalism
An economic system in which the means of production are owned privately.
artery
A large blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart to parts of the body.
A pipe or concrete channel that carries water from a reservoir.
aqueduct
The struggle for world power between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Cold War
The Allies
All the nations who fought Germany and its supporters in World Wars I and II.
The ordered pair that shows the location of a point on a coordinate plane.
coordinates
Spanish word meaning 'conqueror'.
conquistador
The president of the Union during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
implication
Not directly stating something.
A foreign protein.
The name of the southern states during the American Civil War.
Confederacy
Constitution
The plan for the United States government, proposed in 1787.
The soft, less-rigid region of the mantle on which the plates of the lithosphere float and move around.
asthenosphere
The idea that a government can and should be limited in its powers.
Constitutionalism
common denominator
A denominator that is the same for two or more fractions.
circle graph
A graph that shows a whole amount divided into parts.
The noun or pronoun that tells to whom or for whom an action is done in a sentence.
indirect object