What type of government would most likely abolish all opposing political parties, the direct election of leaders, and free speech?
Answer: Military Dictatorship
100
What is specialization?
Answer: A factory that produces one or two goods and leaves the rest for another factory.
100
In which system of government does the legislative branch elect the leader of the executive branch?
Answer: Parliamentary Democracy
100
What type of imaginary line runs parallel to the Equator?
Answer: Latitude
100
What BEST describes a free-enterprise system (market system)?
Answer: A person can start any legal business and charge any price.
200
Define Quota...
Answer: Limits the amount of trade between countries.
200
Define Embargo...
Answer: Stops trade between countries.
200
What is the purpose of tariff?
Answer: To increase the price of imported goods and protect a country's own industries from foreign competition.
200
Why did communism collapse in the Soviet Union in 1989?
Answer: The communists were not able to compete with the appeal of economic and political freedom of the West.
200
What was the major purpose of creating the Euro?
Answer: To make international trade easier in member nations.
300
In the 1600's, what was the most important reason that European countries established settlements in the New World?
Answer: To acquire riches and needed raw materials.
300
How does the country's literacy rate impact it's gross domestic product?
Answer: The higher the literacy rate the higher the GDP.
300
What three things BEST describes the Cold War?
Answers:
1. Distrust between the USA and USSR.
2. Development of nuclear weapons.
3. The space race
300
What was the purpose of creating the European Union?
Answer: To promote trade and economic growth between member nations.
300
How does the entrepreneur contribute to a country's economy?
Answer:
1. Willing to take risks and invest in capital resources.
2. Generate new ideas.
3. Help a country adapt to new trends.
400
What was the primary cause of the Russian Revolution in 1917?
Answer: Differences among social and economic classes in Russia.
400
Why do most people live on the European side of the country?
Answer: The climate is milder.
400
Which Portuguese explorer advanced early exploration by providing money to study navigation, devolop better boats, and encourage voyages around the coast of Africa?
Answer: Prince Henry the Navigator
400
Which empire chartered the East India Company, colonized Austrailia and most of the east coast of North America?
Answer: The bristish empire.
400
After 1986, Chernobyl, Ukraine was abandoned. What caused people to abandon this city?
Answer: The nuclear power plant exploded and radiation levels were unsafe.
500
What was the primary cause for the outbreak of World War II in Europe?
Answer: The invasion of Poland by Germany.
500
What is a transportation barrier in Europe?
Answer: The Alps
500
Who was Francisco Pizarro & Toussaint L' Overture?
Answer:
Francisco Pizarro- defeated the Incas in South America.
Toussaint L' Overture- leader of the independence movement in Haiti.
500
Who was Simon Bolivar?
Answer:
Simon Bolivar- led the independence movements in South America.
500
Who was Miguel Hildalgo?
Answer:
Miguel Hildalgo- Father of mexican independence.