Vocabulary
What are the shared beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group?
Culture
We use latitude (horizontal lines) and longitude (vertical lines) absolute places and adjacent, relevant spaces to identify...
Location
The system or group of people ruling (establishing and carrying out laws) for/with an organized community.
What is government
This is the study of production, consumption, and/or trade for the transfer of wealth.
Economics
These make up the...
History
Civics and Government
Geography
Economics
The Social Studies (4 Domains)
What is the system of producing, distributing, and consuming goods and services?
Economics
These are all characteristics of
Size and shape
Climate
Physical features
People
Place
A form of government in which political power is vested in the people or the population of a state.
Democracy
When companies decide what to make and how much to sell it for based on demand...
Market economy
History Q: Who was the only U.S. President to have earned a Ph.D.?
What is control by policy extending one country's power and influence to another country through diplomacy or military force?
Imperialism
These are all included in
How people change the land
Where people live
Why they live there
How people use land
Human Environment Interaction
This is a lack of having or nonrecognition of any government order at all.
Anarchy
The government decides what companies should make and what it should cost. This is a socialist or communist society.
Command Economy
Geography Q: In order, list the 3 most populated countries in the world.
China = 1.4 Billion
U.S.A. = 347 Million
What is the increasing interconnectedness and interdependence of the world's economies, cultures, and populations, driven by cross-border trade, technology, and the flow of information, investment, and people?
Globalization
Imports and Exports as well as Push and Pull factors all describe...
Movement
Government based on religion.
Theocracy
The government regulates certain things...but doesn’t control everything.
Mixed economy
Civics/Government Q: Despite being freed United States citizens, which people cannot vote in U.S. presidential elections?
People of Puerto Rico (They are U.S. Citizens)
What is the process by which large numbers of people and cultures become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.
Urbanization
A shared area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.
Region
This is the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
Civics
This is based on customs and often functions well in countries with distinct regions like Kenya and Nepal. It may rely on things like hunting, fishing, or trading.
Traditional Economy
What term describes a market structure with a single seller and no close substitutes?
Monopoly