GOVERNMENT + COLD WAR
This type of government is used in the United States and most countries around the world.
Democracy
The unequal distribution of wealth/resources in a given area. Some places will be richer than others, is known as?
Spatial Inequality
Coins and paper bills used as money are called...?
What are the two most important resources to North Africa and the Middle East
Oil and Water
What is it called when you hire someone outside of a company to do work that was once done inside of that company?
Outsourcing
This type of government is usually ran by one person who makes and enforces all the laws.
Dictatorship
Name one group of ancient people who lived in Latin America
Aztec, Olmec, Maya, Inca
A bar graph that represents the way the population in a place is distributed by age and gender is ___?
Population Pyramid
What is it called when a desert expands due to human actions?
Desertification
What is the term for a large company that has operations in more than one country?
Multinational Corporation
This couple was executed in 1953 for spying on the US and giving nuclear secrets to the USSR.
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
People who live on this island near the Gulf of Mexico have full US Citizenship, but cannot vote in Presidential Elections.
Puerto Rico
The number of people who have retired and the number of people not yet in the work force’s relationship to those who are in the work force and support them is _____?
Dependency Ratio
What is the transitional region called between the Sahara and central Africa?
Sahel
What is India's Comparative Advantage?
IT
This physical border separated West Berlin from East Berlin from 1961-1989.
Berlin Wall
This group of people arrived to the rainforest first and have been taking care of the land ever since. They feel because of this the land should be there’s. This group of people are called the…
Native Amazonians
The type of climate in southern Europe with dry warm summers and mild winters is called ____?
Mediterranean climate
Africa is bordered by what four bodies of water?
Atlantic, Indian, Mediterranean, Red
Define Globalization
The development of a worldwide society where people, money, information, and goods flow freely across borders.
This American plane was shot down over the USSR showing that the US was spying.
U2 Spy Plane
This group of people do not want to the loggers to control the land, the land makes them money and they feel like they can share it with other groups who don’t want the trees cut down for studying purposes. This group is the…
Rubber Tappers
A triangle shaped population pyramid would tell us what about a country’s population?
high birth rate, high infant mortality, high death rate
Who are the two groups of people involved in conflict over the rights to the Holy Land?
Israel and Palestine
What country USED to have the 2nd largest economy in the world? (Currently has the 3rd largest)
Japan