Lesson 1 Vocab
Lesson 2 Vocab
Lesson 3 Vocab
US Government
Miscellaneous
100
The equator circles the middle of the Earth and divides it into two of these.
What are hemispheres?
100
This is the amount of a good or service that a producer wants to sell.
What is supply?
100
All Americans have the right to see these 3 things.
What are life, liberty and happiness?
100
This is the name for the system that keeps one branch from having too much power.
What is checks and balances?
100
People born in other countries who want to become citizens have to go through this.
What is naturalization?
200
The equator divides earth into the Northern and Southern hemisphere. This line divides Earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
This is the amount of something that a consumer wants to buy.
What is demand?
200
The Constitution created this system of government where the federal (central) government is the highest authority but it shares powers with the states.
What is a federal system?
200
This branch is known as the US Congress and passes laws for the whole country.
What is the legislative branch?
200
These are goods shipped out of a country.
What are exports?
300
Lines of latitude are parallel to the equator, while lines of longitude circle the Earth from pole to pole. The grid system formed by these lines makes it possible to find this.
What is absolute location?
300
In order to make goods and offer services, people need resources. Name two that the book mentions.
What are land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship, and technology?
300
In this type of government, citizens vote for officials who serve the will of the people, act in their interest, and protect their rights.
What is a representative government?
300
The executive branch includes the US President and the members of this branch do this.
What is ensure the nation's laws are carried out?
300
The name for when the economy grows very slowly or shrinks.
What is a recession?
400
This type of map shows the names and borders of countries?
What is a political map?
400
Other factors affect supply and demand. Name one the books mentions.
What is scarcity or opportunity cost?
400
The federal government is split into three equal parts, and each branch has its own specific powers. Explain why the separation of powers adopted.
What is so that no one branch could become too powerful?
400
The judicial branch includes the US Supreme Court and various lesser courts. They use this to interpret laws.
What is the Constitution?
400
Mapmakers face a problem showing the surface of the earth and they create different types of these to show Earth's surface in slightly different ways.
What are map projections?
500
This type of map uses colors to show population density.
What is a chloropleth map?
500
Most of the world's countries take part in some form of international trade. Name the goal of this globalization.
What is to increase free trade?
500
Name one right of citizenship and one duty or responsibility of citizenship.
Rights: Freedom of expression, attend peaceful gatherings, petition government, worship freely, fair trial w/ jury of peers, vote for public officials, serve in office.
Duty/Responsibility: Obeying all laws, pay taxes, serve on a jury, defend the US and Constitution
500
Name one way a branch of government can exert it's power and one way it's power can be checked.
500
A government will decide what goods will be made and who will receive them in this type of economy.
What is a command economy?