vocabulary
a very small supply of something
What is scarcity?
A benefit to putting money in a bank
What is earning interest?
mountains, canyons, and plains are examples of this
What is a landform?
People having a voice in how they will be governed
What is voting?
What are Native Americans?
a good or service brought into a country from another country.
What is an import?
Reasons why a country would import goods from other regions.
resources that can be replenished or built up again
What is a renewable resource?
Legislative, Judicial, and Executive are the three...
What are the three branches of government?
Europeans settling in North America and taking over land from the Native Americans resulted in this
What is fighting/conflict between the two groups?
a form of government that is run by its people.
What is a democracy?
Many jobs available, businesses earning money, and people employed and making money are all signs of
What is a healthy economy?
Environment, people, and history defines this
What is a region?
Printing money, declaring war, maintaining the military, and addressing issues that affect the whole country
What is the federal government?
lumber, water, wheat are all examples of
What is a renewable resource?
money collected by the government for services that help run the country, state, or town.
What are taxes?
What is a healthy economy?
resources that take millions of years to be formed and cannot be replenished
What is a nonrenewable resource?
Overseeing state elections, addressing public health and safety of people in each state
What is the state government?
Government, People, Economy, History, and Resources are all examples of
an official change to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
rivers, harbors, lakes, and oceans
What is a waterway?
Services such as police, fire, public parks, and road maintenance, and addressing issues unique to a specific community
What is the local government?
paying for local, state, and country-wide services
What are taxes?