Economic Sectors
Which economic sector provides services to people, such as teachers, doctors, and store workers?
Tertiary
Theism is the belief in...
One or more gods
If you're going to Myrtle Beach, what ocean are you looking at?
Atlantic
What is a person who moves from one country to another to live called?
Immigrant
What canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Central America?
Panama Canal
Which economic sector involves getting natural resources directly from the Earth, such as farming, fishing, and mining?
Primary Sector
What religion is the largest branch of Christianity in many countries of Central America?
Catholicism
This region in the U.S. is known for farming due to fertile soil. (Think 'the middle' or 'in-between').
Great Plains
What is the term of a factor that forces someone to leave their current home?
Push Factor
The other canal that cuts through Egypt and connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea is the...
Suez Canal
Provide an example of a job in the secondary sector
Factory, Saw Mill, Meat Packing Plant, Warehouse, Assembly Line
What European power's colonial influence helped spread Catholicism throughout much of Central America?
The Spanish Empire
What major mountain range stretches from Canada through the western United States and into New Mexico?
Rocky Mountains (remember CUMIN... Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, New Mexico... you can also include Wyoming)
What is the term for a factor that attracts someone to move to a new place?
Pull Factor
Why did many people settle around the Great Lakes?
Transportation and/or Trade (fishing, transport)
Which economic sector focuses on information, research, technology, and other knowledge-based activities?
Quaternary
Provide an example of a Polytheistic relgion
Hinduism, Greek mythology, Roman mythology
What large body of water lies between the southeastern United States and the eastern coast of Mexico?
Gulf of Mexico
Why does the western part of the United States have a large Hispanic population?
History of Spanish colonialism
This is an organization of workers who have joined together to advance their common interests, like equal pay and safe working conditions.
Labor Union
This is an economic chain that is out of order:
- A company turns the ore into steel
- A company mines the ore
- An organization analyzes soil and rock data.
What sector is missing?
Tertiary
Name three of the most prominent monotheistic religions
Christianity (Christians), Judaism (Jews/Jewish), and Islam (Muslim)
What major river flows through the center of the United States and eventually empties into the Gulf of Mexico?
The Mississippi
Why does the American Southeast have a large African American population?
History of Enslavement and/or Jim Crow (segregation)
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (or DRC), children often work in these mines to find this material which is found in our phones, electric cars, and laptops
Cobalt