Imaginary lines that circle the Earth from Pole to Pole, measuring distance East or West of the Prime Meridian.
Culture
North, South, East, and West.
Cardinal Directions
A way of showing the round Earth on a flat map.
Projection
A continued rise in prices or the supply of money.
Inflation
A good sent from one country to another in trade.
Exports
The lack of a resource
Scarcity
The amount of a good or service that a producer wants to sell.
Supply
An economic system in which custom decides what people do, make, buy, or sell.
Traditional Economy
A special-purpose map that uses color to show population density.
Part of government that passes laws.
Legislative Branch
Imaginary lines that circle the Earth parallel to the Equator.
Latitude
A measuring line that shows the distances on a map.
Scale
To trade by exchanging one good or service for another.
Barter
What is given up, such as time or money to make or buy something.
Opportunity Cost
A Good brought into a country from another country.
imports
System in which each branch of government limits the power of another branch.
Checks and Balances
The act of running a business and taking on the risks of that business
Enterepreneurship
Government which divides power between central and state governments.
Federal System
A map that shows land and water features.
Physical Map
Government in which citizens elect of ficials who govern.
Representative Government
The movement of people to settle in another place.
Migration
The division of power among the branches of government.
Separation of Powers
Capital
A "half sphere" uses to refer to one-half of the globe when divided into North and South or East and West.
Hemisphere