Government
The money people pay to support the government.
What is taxes?
The people and groups of people who make, carry out, and enforce the laws.
What is government?
A collection of maps in book form.
What is an atlas?
Large bodies of salt water of which there are 5.
What are Oceans?
A person who belongs to a country.
What is a citizen?
A ticket or piece of paper used to vote in an election.
What is a ballot?
What is a rule made by a government for all the people in a town, state or country.
What is a law?
A design on a map that shows directions.
What is a compass rose?
Each half of the earth, split at the equator by the equator.
What is a Hemisphere?
Economic acts people perform for others that do not involve a production of goods (ex. doctors, teachers, police).
What are services?
The head of our government.
What is the President?
The process by which people choose their leaders by voting.
What is an election?
North, East, South, and West.
What are cardinal directions?
A list that explains what each map symbol or picture stands for on a map.
What is a Map Key?
A shortage of the amount of resources.
What is scarcity?
People who are running for a certain office or position.
What is a candidate?
Makes the laws and is made up of Congress (Senate and House of Representatives).
What is the Legislative Branch?
The 7 largest land masses in the world.
What are continents?
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
What are Intermediate Directions?
Things that most people like to have but do not need to survive.
What are wants?
Carries out the law and headed by the President.
What is Executive Branch?
Enforces and interprets the laws and decides if laws are fair and constitutional; made up of the Supreme Court and justices.
What is the Judicial Branch?
A tool that compares distance on a map to distance on Earth.
What is a Map Scale?
A set of straight lines on a map that cross to from square of equal size.
What is a Map Grid?
The beliefs and everyday life shared by people in a particular place.
What is Culture?