History is a record of the past. Give an example of a source that gives you information about history.
What are newspapers, letters, journals
100
Give an example of human-environment interaction.
What is (answers will vary)?
100
Economics is the study of how people manage their resources by ______, ________, and _________ goods and services.
What is producing, exchanging, and using?
100
What is a culture region?
What is an area of the world where people share similar beliefs, history, and languages?
200
Geography is the study of people, places, and the environment. It focuses on five themes. What are the five themes?
What are location, region, place, movement, and human-environment interaction?
200
Government is the people and groups within a society that have the authority to ______ ______, make sure they are _______ ______, and to settle disagreements about them.
What is make laws, carried out?
200
The conflict between people's desires and their limited resources is _____________.
What is scarcity?
200
Name two of the world's culture regions.
What is U.S. and Canada, Latin America, Europe, North Africa and Southwest Asia, Africa south of the Sahara, South Asia, (East Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands)
300
Which of the themes of geography tells where a place is? For example, Israel is on the southeast shore of the Mediterranean.
What is location?
300
What is the difference between a limited and unlimited government?
What is in a limited government everyone has to obey the laws. In an unlimited government rulers can do whatever they want without regard to the law?
300
Different countries have different levels of economic development. What would be a characteristic of a country with a high level of development?
What is the people are well educated, the people have good health, the people earn decent wages, clean running water, transportation, technology?
300
What links the people of Latin America?
What are the Spanish and Portuguese languages and its common history?
400
Which of the themes of geography considers an area's distinguishing characteristics? For example, Israel has a dry climate in the south and a wetter one in the north.
What is place?
400
A democracy is a type of limited government in which people have the authority to make laws directly. In a republic, another type of limited government, people make laws through ______ ______.
What is elected representatives?
400
Different countries have different levels of economic development. What is a characteristic of a country with a low level of development?
What is few jobs, poor wages, low literacy rates, low life expectancy?
400
What makes the United States a multicultural region?
What is it contains other cultures other than the dominant one (English and French speaking people, Catholics as well as Jews, Muslims, and Buddhists).
500
Which theme of geography refers to the study of migrations of people, animals, and even plants?
What is movement?
500
What is the name for a legal member of a country?
What is a citizen?
500
_________ consists of the beliefs, customs, laws, art, and ways of living that a group of people share.
What is culture?
500
Describe interdependence.
What is decisions and events in one part of the world affect other parts?