Economics
What is Economics?
Is the study of how individuals and nations make choices about how to use resources to meet their needs and wants.
Social study that investigates how things are made. bought, sold and used.
What is civics?
Is the study of the rights and duties of citizens.
What are the two types of locations?
Relative location and absolute location.
What is the most ACCURATE way to show Earth?
Globes.
What does a Historian do?
They are like detectives. They piece together credible evidence to draw conclusions about past events.
What are goods?
Any products made or grown by people.
What is the government based on?
Constitutions.
What are some physical characteristics that describe a place?
Mountains, waterways, plant and animal life.
What is a globe?
Is the spherical model of the planet.
What is a CAUSE?
The event or person that makes something happen.
Mention 3 examples of goods.
iPad, smartphones, desks, etc.
Mention the 4 common forms of government throughout history.
Monarchy, democracy, republic and dictatorship.
What are some human characteristics that describe a place?
Language. religion and architecture.
What is the Equator?
Is the imaginary line that circles the middle of Earth like a belt and divides it into half spheres of hemispheres.
What is an EFFECT?
The result of a cause.
What does a service mean in Economics?
Actions that people perform.
What is Monarchy?
When a country is ruled by a single person. Is handed down within the family.
What is the question that corresponds to the theme “Human/environment interaction”?
What is the relationship between people and their surroundings?
What is the Prime Meridian?
An imaginary line that runs from north to south.
Give me an example where there’s a cause and effect relationship.
Ex. I didn’t study for the test, so I got bad grades.
Mention 3 examples of services.
Hairdresser, teaching, repairing cars.
What is Democracy?
When a country is ruled by people.
What is the question that corresponds to the Theme Regions?
What common features does a certain area share?
Is the line that divides the Earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres?
Prime meridian.
Why do historians arrive at different interpretations of History?
Because they are different people with their own values and viewpoints.