Globalization/Geography and Resources
The physical features of an area, such as mountains, rivers, lakes, and plains.
What is geography?
A system of government in which citizens have a role in choosing their leaders.
What is democracy?
The basic economic problem that occurs because people have unlimited wants but limited resources.
What is scarcity?
The shared beliefs, traditions, customs, language, and practices of a group of people.
What is culture?
A document, photograph, diary, or artifact created during the time being studied.
What is a primary source?
The buying and selling of goods and services between countries.
What is international trade?
The process Canadians use to choose their political representatives.
What is an election?
The amount of a product or service that producers are willing to sell.
What is supply?
The way a person or group understands who they are and where they belong.
What is identity?
A textbook or article written later by someone studying an historical event.
What is a secondary source?
A good or service that a country sells to another country.
What is an export?
This document protects the rights and freedoms of Canadians.
What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
The amount of a product or service that consumers are willing to buy.
What is demand?
Canada is known for having people from many different cultural backgrounds. This is called cultural ______.
What is diversity?
The ability to understand an event from the viewpoint of people who lived at that time.
What is historical perspective?
A good or service that a country purchases from another country.
What is an import?
This level of Canadian government is responsible for areas such as education and health care.
What is the provincial government?
A system in which businesses and individuals generally own property and make economic decisions.
What is capitalism?
The idea that people from different cultural backgrounds can maintain their cultures while being part of Canadian society.
What is multiculturalism?
The process of investigating the past by asking questions and examining evidence.
What is historical inquiry?
This type of resource can naturally replenish itself, such as sunlight, wind, and trees.
What is a renewable resource?
The principle that everyone, including government officials, must obey the law.
What is the rule of law?
The study of how people and societies use limited resources to meet their needs and wants.
What is economics?
Language, religion, traditions, family, and community can all influence a person's ______.
What is identity?
When historians examine different sources and viewpoints before reaching a conclusion, they are evaluating historical ______.
What is evidence?