The people and groups within a society that have the authority to make laws, to make sure they are carried out, and to settle disagreements about them.
What is government?
100
The beliefts, customs, laws, art, and ways of living that a group of people share.
What is culture?
200
A feature of Earth's surface, such as a mountain, valley, or plateau.
What are landforms?
200
A public square or open place in the middle of a town or city.
What is a plaza?
200
An area in which goods can move across borders without being taxed.
What is a free-trade zone?
200
A guarantee that government and private institutions will not discriminate against people on the basis of factors such as race, religion, age, gender, or disability.
What is equal opportunity?
200
A dance that began in Argentina over 100 years ago.
What is the tango?
300
Moisture taht falls to Earth, such as rain or snow.
What is precipitation?
300
The spreading of an idea, product, or technology around the world.
What is globalization?
300
The total value of the goods and services produced in a country during a given period of time.
What is the G.D.P.?
300
A legal member of a country.
What is a citizen?
300
A holiday celebrated in Mexico, which honors those people that have passed away.
What is Day of the Dead?
400
The process by which environmental factors, such as wind, rivers, and rain, wear away soil and stone.
What is erosion?
400
A writing system in which pictures and symbols are used to represent words and sounds.
What are hieroglyphs?
400
An economy that depends on just one product for the majority of its income.
What is a single-product economy?
400
A document that is the foundation for all U.S. laws and the framework for the U.S. government.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
400
A holiday in Brazil that celebrates the country's cultural diversity.
What is Carnival?
500
A dry area that gets some rainfall.
What does semi-arid mean?
500
A dictator leader in Chile, who is thought to have killed over 80,000 Chileans.
Who is Augusto Pinochet?
500
A measure that shows how a country's economy is doing.
What is an economic indicator?
500
A national government.
What is a federal government?
500
The movement of people from rural areas to urban areas.