Economics
This economic force describes the willingness and ability of consumers to buy goods and services.
What is demand?
These natural features are created by the movement of tectonic plates and include mountains, valleys, and plains.
What are landforms?
This deadly 14th-century pandemic killed millions and significantly affected European social and economic structures.
What was the Black Death?
This source of law is created by Parliament.
What is statutory law?
This document outlines how Australia is governed and came into effect on 1 January 1901.
What is the Australian Constitution?
This concept describes the next best alternative you give up when making a choice.
What is the opportunity cost?
These two processes occur when soil and rock are transported from one location to another location.
What are water erosion and wind erosion?
This major trade route connected China with Europe and contributed to the exchange of goods, religion, and disease.
What is the Silk Road?
This division of the legal system resolves disagreements between individuals or organisations, including contract and property disputes.
What is civil law?
This type of government system, used in Australia, allows citizens to elect representatives to make laws on their behalf.
What is representative democracy?
This type of unemployment occurs when a person’s job disappears during economic downturns.
What is cyclical unemployment?
This term describes the total environment, including physical, biological, and human elements that interact with each other.
What is a landscape?
This system, central to medieval Europe, structured society around land ownership, obligations, and loyalty between lords and vassals.
What was feudalism?
This type of judge-made law emerges when courts resolve disputes in the absence of legislation, creating legal principles that guide future cases.
What is common law?
This practice divides power between the Parliament, Executive, and Judiciary to avoid abuse of authority.
What is the separation of powers?
This law states that firms produce more when prices rise and produce less when prices fall.
What is the law of supply?
This major tectonic boundary runs along Australia's east coast, Asia's east coast, and the Americas' west coast, and is responsible for high earthquake and volcanic activity.
What is the Pacific "Ring of Fire"?
These three types of plague were distinguished by how the bacteria affected the body.
What are the bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic plagues?
This legal doctrine, inherited from British law, requires courts to follow previous judicial decisions when the facts of a case are similar.
What is the doctrine of precedent (stare decisis)?
These four freedoms were emphasised when rights in Australia were examined.
What are the freedoms of assembly, association, religion, and speech?
This term describes an economy where business decisions such as pricing and production are driven by the interaction of buyers and sellers with minimal government intervention.
What is a market economy?
This geographic process occurs when water seeps into cracks in rocks, freezes, expands, and breaks the rock apart.
What is freeze–thaw weathering?
This social and economic system saw peasants tied to the land due to obligations owed to local lords.
What is serfdom?
These three components are required to prove negligence.
What is an owed duty of care, a breach of that duty of care, and resultant damages?
This system allows different states within Australia to have their own governments while sharing power with the federal government.
What is federalism?