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100

A triangular shaped land area at the mouth of a river. This geographic feature is home to the cities of Cairo, Egypt, Karachi, Pakistan and Dhaka, Bangladesh.

What is a delta?

100

It is the year Montclair High School was built?

What is 1914?

100

This nation's largest oil producing facility was recently attacked.

What is Saudi Arabia?

100

This occurs when expenses exceed revenue and indicate the financial health of a country

What is a budget deficit?

100

Police and Fire protection, Public schools, Garbage collection and snow removal

What services provided by local government?

200

An extensive land area having a relatively level surface raised sharply above adjacent land on at least one side.

What is a plateau?

200

He was an American artist whose landscapes melded the paint handling of the French Barbizon School with subject matter specific to the changing American countryside. With his hallmark work The Lackawanna Valley (1856).

Who was George Inness?

200

She is known by this name for the color of the Iranian Futebol team she supported.  Her death occured only because she wanted to watch a soccer game.

Who is the 'Blue Girl'?

200

It is the total amount of money that a country's government has borrowed, by various means.

What is the national debt?

200

It is a way of organizing a society in which the government(everyone) owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately owned property

What is communism?

300

A group of islands closely scattered in a body of water.  An example is the tropical island nation of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, which composed of more than 1,000 coral islands, known for its beaches, blue lagoons and extensive reefs.

What is an archipelago?

300

These include building, roadways, landscaping, language, religion, political systems, economic systems, and population distribution.

What are human characteristics?

300

This progressive taxation approach places an increased tax burden on individuals, partnerships, companies, corporations, trusts, and certain estates with higher incomes

What is the ability to pay principle?

300

It is an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market

What is capitalism?

400

A narrow strip of land having water on both sides and connecting two larger land masses.  The Sinai Peninsula connecting Africa to Southwest Asia is an example.

What is an Isthmus?

400

These make up a place's natural environment and are derived from geological, hydrological, atmospheric, and biological processes. They include land forms, bodies of water, climate, soils, natural vegetation, and animal life.

What are physical characteristics?

400

Sales taxes, Tolls, Excise taxes and National Park Fees are all based on this tax principle.

What is a benefit received principle?

400

It is a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.

What is a theocracy?

500

It is the location of a place in relationship to other places or features.

What is relative location?

500

It was the conflict that took 33 of MHS's finest young men, that walked the halls on its first day. 



What is the Great War? (WWI)

500

In the United States, it is represented by aspects of the economy that are free market, traditional and command in nature.

What is a mixed economy?

500

It is a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch

What is a republic?

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