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100
Money needed to develop a business
What is capital resource?
100
The basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society (ex. roads, power lines, communication lines)
What is infrastructure?
100
Rainforests are found in what major climate zone
What tropical?
100
The world's largest stock exchange
What is the New York Stock Exchange?
100
1. working towards industrialization 2. low GDP 3. low literacy rate 4. low life expectancy 5. high infant mortality rate
What is a developing nation?
200
The labor force of a country, usually dependant on education, skills and ability
What is human resource?
200
These are the 3 levels of economic activity
What is primary, secondary and tertiary?
200
Something that has a good effect or promotes well-being
What is benefit?
200
The line that divides the flow of water between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean
What is the Continental Divide?
200
A group of statistical values that give an indication of the health of the economy
What is indicator?
300
Two or more countries relying on each other for economic and political support
What is interdependence?
300
manufacturing and processing (ex. slaughtering and processing pigs into bacon, pork chops)
What is secondary economic activity?
300
These are seasonal rains that come to Asia.
What what is monsoon rain?
300
A form of government in which the citizens elect their leaders to govern for them
What is democracy?
300
Number of deaths of babies under one year of age per 1000 live births
What is infant mortality rate?
400
Metal and other minerals found in the earth that cannot be replaced (ex. fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas)
What is nonrenewable resource?
400
Dealing with natural resources (ex. farming pigs)
What is primary economic activity?
400
The loss, sacrifice, suffering, or effort involved in doing something
What is cost?
400
Business firms that do business in many countries
What are Multinational corporations?
400
Percentage of people who can read and write (Developed countries have higher rates.)
What is literacy rate?
500
Resources that cannot be used up
What are renewable resources?
500
Service industries (ex. grocery stores that sell packaged pork products to consumers)
What is tertiary economic activity?
500
Indicators that include wealth, employment, environment, physical and mental health, education, recreation and leisure time, and social belonging
What is quality of life?
500
Military alliance of democratic states in Europe and North America
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization? (NATO)
500
A level of material comfort as measured by the goods, services, and luxuries available to an individual, group, or nation
What is standard of living?
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