Social Studies Skills
U.S. Government
Economy and Government
Mexico
Canada
100
It is the imaginary line around the center of the Earth that separates the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is The Equator?
100
It is the type of government used in the United States.
What is Republic?
100
It is an economy where individuals and businesses make all the decisions about what is made.
What is a market economy?
100
About 1/2 of Mexico's workforce work in this type of job.
What is service?
100
It is the form of democracy that Canadians use to run their country.
What is parliamentary democracy?
200
I would use this type of map to find the elevation of a mountain.
What is a physical map?
200
The United States has two houses of Congress. This is the upper house.
What is The Senate?
200
It is an economy where governments have some laws limiting what businesses can or can't do.
What is a mixed economy?
200
Many of Mexico's workers work in this type of job, making goods in machiladores that will be exported to the United States.
What is manufacturing?
200
He or she chooses the members of the Senate in Canada.
Who is the Prime Minister?
300
They are lines that run parallel to the Prime Meridian and measure how far east or west a location is from that line.
What are longitude lines?
300
Food, language, clothing, and traditions are all part of this.
What is culture?
300
It is a government run by religious principals and rules.
What is a theocracy?
300
Oil drilling, agriculture, and tourism all this kind of activity in Mexico.
What is economic activity?
300
Much of Canada lies North of this latitude line, about 66 degrees North, creating very cold conditions.
What is The Arctic Circle?
400
They are the five themes of geography.
What are location, place, HEI, movement, and regions?
400
It is the percentage of states that must vote to change The Constitution before an amendment is ratified.
What is 3/4?
400
It is a map that shows the borders of states or counties.
What is a political map?
400
Mayan indians still live in the Chiapas Highlands and on this peninsula in Southern Mexico.
What is The Yucatan Peninsula?
400
Canada is a wealthy country because of it's abundant supply of natural resources which make it possible for Canadians to do this.
What is trade (or export).
500
It is the term that means being in short supply.
What is scarcity?
500
Once Senators hold impeachment proceedings, they decide whether or not to remove a President from office.
What is the Supreme Court?
500
It is the body of state electors that elects the President.
What is the electoral college?
500
The land with the lowest altitude in Mexico is in this region, some of which can get 0 inches of rainfall in a year.
What is The Pacific Northwest?
500
These are resources that are not easily or quickly replaced by nature.
What are non-renewable resources?
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