Troublesome Terms
Political Places
Physical Features
Economic Essentials
Don't You Just Love Politics?
100

A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster

A Refugee

100

Number 6

What is Norway

100

This river flows southwest and drains into the Pacific Ocean just south of Vancouver BC

What is the Frasier River

100

This economic system is driven by government decisions

What is a Command Economy
100

This system of government is ruled by one person

What is autocracy

200

The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee

Asylum

200
Number 2

What is Germany

200

This is where two plates collide, resulting in one 'diving' under the other

What is a convergent boundary

200

This is an advantage to a command economy

Answers vary

200

This system of government is ruled by a small group

What is oligarchy

300

To begin living permanently in another country

What is Immigrate

300

Number 30

What is Croatia

300

This canal joins the Mediterranean and Red Seas

What is the Suez Canal

300

This is one basic decision made by an economic system:

What to produce

How much

Who to sell to

300

This is the right to rule

What is sovereignty 

400

Leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another

What is Emigrate

400

South America Number 1

What is Columbia
400

This man-made feature connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans

What is the Panama Canal
400

This is an influencer of economic development

Technology

Human resources

Capital goods

Natural resources

400

This is a form of government where all the positions of power are elected

What is a republic

500

Any system of social organization, made up of villages, bands, or other groups with a common ancestry, language, culture, and name.

What is a tribe

500

South America Number 12

What is Argentina
500

This desert is the highest in the world, located South of Washington

What is the Atacama Desert

500

This economic system has no governmental regulation or involvement

What is market system

500

This is a form of government where the citizens are the source of power

What is democracy

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