Geography
Trade Barriers
Governments
Economics
Religious and Ethnic Groups
100

I am the world's largest desert.  I run across the width of Northern Africa.

What is the Sahara Desert?

100

Taxes placed on imported goods.

What is a Tariff?

100

Citizens elect members of Parliament, and then the members select the leader. The leader works with or through the legislature.

What is a PARLIAMENTARY Democracy?

100

Trading without using money.

What is Bartering ?

100

A group of people who share a common belief system.

What is a religious group?

200

Starts in the Himalayas and flows southeast through India and Bangladesh for more than 1,500 miles to the Indian Ocean.

What is the Ganges River?

200

Forbids trade with another country.

What is an Embargo?

200

System of government in which the leader is constitutionally independent of the legislature. Citizens directly elect leader, who works separately from legislature.

What is a PRESIDENTIAL Democracy?

200

All economic decisions are based on customs, traditions, & beliefs of the past.

What is Traditional Economy?

200

A group of people who share  common cultural characteristics.

What is an Ethnic Group?

300

Both start in the mountains of Turkey and run parallel to each other in some places.

What are the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers?

300

A limit on the quantity of an item brought into a country.

What is a Quota?

300

Citizens have a very limited role in government; one person has all the power

What is an Autocracy?

300

All economic decisions are made by the Government.

What is a Command Economy?

300

This group can have many things in common such as shared history, common ancestry, language, religion, traditions, beliefs, holidays, food, etc.

What is an Ethnic Group?

400

It is located along the central coast of Africa, near the Equator, and lies in the Congo River Basin.

What is the Tropical Rain Forest?

400

Something that is assigned value and can be used to purchase goods and services in a market.

What is Currency?

400

Supreme power is vested in the people & exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation involving free elections

What is a Democracy?

400

Economic decisions are made based on the changes in prices that occur as buyers & sellers interact in the market place.

What is a Market Economy?

400

This group have many things in common such as God(s), prophets, prayers, history, sacred text, religious laws, holy days, etc.

What is a Religious Group?

500

I am a 120-mile man-made waterway that is used to transport goods to and from Asia, Africa, & Europe.

What is the Suez Canal?

500

Money from one country must be converted into the currency of another country to pay for goods in that country.

What is Currency Exchange?

500

Position is hereditary; role is passed down through members of royal family

What is an Monarchy?

500

1.What to Produce? 

2.How to Produce? 

3.For Whom to Produce?

What are the three economic questions?

500

Islam and Christianity

What are the two main religious groups in Africa?