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Louisiana Geography
Basic Economic Concepts
Providing Louisiana's Goods and Services
Louisiana's Government: Rights and Responsibilities
The Early People
100
measures a location's distance north or south of the equator
What is latitude
100
The amount left after costs are subtracted from the price.
What is a profit?
100
Highways, police protection, public education, and public libraries.
What are public goods and services
100
Amounts charged citizens by their governments to help provide government services
What are taxes
100
Tribal system
What is totem
200
an important part of the flood-control system built in 1935 to keep New Orleans from flooding
What is the Bonnet Carre Spilway
200
The value of your second choice, the next best alternative.
What is opportunity cost?
200
The only facility in the United States capable of handling extremely deep ships.
What is the Superport
200
Revising the district lines based on the new population numbers
What is reapportionment
200
Natural resistance
What is immunity
300
soil deposited by water
What is alluvial soil
300
Factories, tools, bridges, machines
What are capital resources
300
Removed trade restrictions between the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
300
Committee that the senate and the house work out the differences and return the revised bill to both chambers for another vote.
What is the conference committee
300
Spanish conquistador from Cuba who planned to explore America
Who is Hernando de Soto
400
The only place of the Marsh region where people live.
What are cheniers?
400
When customs, habits, and beliefs determine how the four basic economic questions areanswered
What is a traditional economy.
400
Chemicals made from petroleum.
What are petrochemicals
400
Twelve citizens who serve for six months, who must decide whether there is enough evidence to indict a person on not
What is the grand jury
400
The elaborate mound in Louisiana
What is Poverty Point
500
manmade lake that borders Louisiana and Texas
What is the Toledo Bend
500
1. What to produce? 2. How to produce? 3. How much to produce? 4. Who to produce for?
What are the four basic economic questions?
500
A monthly price survey for a list of goods and services checks for increases or decreases.
What is the gross domestic product
500
Payment which excuses part of the value of the home from the property tax.
What is homestead exemption
500
A land bridge that connected Alaska and Siberia, which was believed to have given the first people to come from Asia to North America.
What is the Bering Land Bridge