Regions/Geography
The western coast of the U.S. faces towards this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This allows farmers to grow crops during the dry season in the Central Valley of California.
What is irrigation?
This happens to the price of oil when the demand is low and the supply is high.
Tax money helps pay for government services, including education, ______, and medical assistance programs.
a. haircuts
b. car washing
c. dog walking
d. roads
What is d (roads)?
Any member of Congress can introduce a _______, or an idea for a law.
What is bill?
A flat rolling land with grass.
What is a prairie?
A moving stream of water in the ocean.
What is a current?
The amount of a product or service that buyers are willing to buy depending on the price that sellers ask is called __________.
What is demand?
All people are __________ because they buy and use goods and services.
What are consumers?
A person who leaves one country to live in another is called an __________.
What is immigrant?
The amount of rain or snow is called this.
What is precipitation?
This makes farming difficult in the southwestern U.S.
What is drought?
The amount of a product or service that producers are willing to sell at all possible market prices is called ________.
What is supply?
___________ is money that people and businesses must pay to the government.
Was is tax?
In a _______, elected leaders represent the people.
What is republic?
A large area with features such as climate and landforms.
What is a region?
The __________ of a country is the way its people use natural resources, money, and knowledge to produce goods and services.
What is economy?
This is a part ownership in a company.
What is stock?
A payment for goods and services is called an _________.
What is expense?
The United States is a __________, which means that power is held by the people.
What is a democracy?
Hurricanes and tornadoes are alike because they are both ________ shaped ______ storms.
What is funnel and wind?
This happens when there is not enough of a resource to make all the products people want.
What is scarcity?
Countries sign trade agreements with each other to help their ___________ grow.
What is their business (economies)?
People earn _________ for work completed at a job.
What is income?
The __________ government is in charge of working with other countries.
What is national?