Core Concepts 1
An economy in which people make decisions based on customs and habits.
What is a traditional economy?
The amount of goods and services produced given the amount of resources used.
What is productivity?
Positively charged subatomic particles.
What are protons?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
The capital of Idaho.
What is Boise?
An economy that combines elements of traditional, market, and command economic systems.
What is a mixed economy?
The practical application of knowledge to accomplish a task.
What is technology?
Matter can never be created or destroyed illustrates this law.
What is the Law of Conservation of Matter?
A small particle that makes up most types of matter.
What is an atom?
These man-made sources of water helped stabilize the Roman Empire and provide clean water for its citizens.
What are Aqueducts?
An economy in which the central government makes all of the economic decisions.
What is a command economy?
Countries with less productive economies and lower standards of living.
What are developing countries?
Negatively charged subatomic particles.
What are electrons?
These subatomic particles have a neutral charge.
What are neutrons?
Justinian's wife.
Who is Theodora?
An economy in which individual producers and consumers make their own economic decisions.
What is a market economy?
Economic growth or an increase in living standards.
What is development?
Protons and neutrons are stored in this part of an atom.
What is the nucleus?
This is where electrons are found in an atom.
What is the electron cloud/orbit?
This famous Christian religious structure was built by Justinian and was conquered during the Islamic Golden Age.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
The total value of all goods and services produced in a country in a year.
What is gross domestic product/GDP?
A country with a strong economy and a high standard of living.
What is a developed economy?
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This chemist and schoolteacher developed early atomic theory.
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Who is John Dalton?
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His gold-foil experiment yielded early knowledge of atomic structure.
Who is Ernest Rutherford?
Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation says that near Earth, objects accelerate toward Earth's center at roughly this speed in meters per second.
What is 9.8/9.81 meters per second?