Supplies that are not important in a person`s life.
What is a want?
100
Makes laws.
What does the legislative branch do?
100
Resources that replenish themselves over time.
What is a renewable resource?
100
Taxes on imported goods used to keep out foreign competition.
What is a tariff?
200
Soil deposited by a river.
What is alluvial soil?
200
Producers and consumers rely on each other and on other economies to succeed.
What is interdependence?
200
The division of powers to different branches.
What is separation of powers?
200
Plants and animals, also called biological resources.
What is flora and fauna?
200
The place where the river meets the sea.
What is an estuary?
300
Humid subtropical climate.
What climate does Louisiana have?
300
Government controlled by the mother country for resources.
What is mercantilism?
300
Having two chambers.
What is the concept of being bicameral?
300
An organization of workers formed to improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers.
What is a labor union?
300
The value of the second choice, the next best alternative.
What is an opportunity cost?
400
It was used to prevent the Mississippi River from changing course and flowing through the Atchafalaya River.
What is the Old River Structure?
400
Sugarcane, sweet potatoes, rice, cotton, and soybeans.
What are the five most important crops in Louisiana?
400
Has the right of individual dignity and freedom from discrimination.
Why is the Louisiana bill of rights stronger than the Bill of Rights?
400
The people a legislator represents.
What are constituents?
400
Revising the district lines based on the population.
What is reapportionment?
500
The Gulf of Mexico produces cooling effects on Southern Louisiana.
Why is Southern Louisiana cooler than Northern Louisiana?
500
No one is required to join a union to get a job.
What is the "right to work law"?
500
Heads the state`s legal office and Department Justice, brings legal action, provides opinions on questions of the law to all agencies and government groups, and defends Louisiana`s laws.
What is an attorney governor?
500
A small and sluggish creek that may be miles long and deep enough for navigation.