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Question | Answer |
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what is a coast | a land that borders an ocean |
what are human resources | the services, knowledge, skills, and intelligence workers provide |
what is capital resources | the tools , machines, buildings, and other equipment that a business uses to make goods or provide services |
what is a culture | the way of life of a particulair goup of people |
what is an industry | a business that makes goods in factories |
what is a coastal plain | a flat, level land along a coast |
what is a cape | a point of land that sticks out into the water |
what is a bay | a body of water partly surrounded by land but open to the sea |
what is a glacier | massive ice sheets, awesome force that can lift a rock as large as a house and carry it across a continent |
what is a market economy | in a market economy people are free to decide what to make, how to make it, and for whom to make it. |
what is a command economy | a system in which the government decides what to make, who will make it, and who will get it |
what is a profit | in a market economy, the money left over after a business pays its expenses |
what is a constitution | a plan for setting up and running a government |
what is slavery | an unjust system in which one person owns another |
what is immigration | the movement of people from one nation into another |
what is manufacturing | making goods from other materials |
what is a commuter | someone who travels between home and work each day |
what is a judicical branch | the part of a government that interprets, or explains, laws in the court |
what is a legislative branch | the part of a government that makes laws |
what is a executive branch | the part of government that puts laws into action |
what is a govener | the officail who leads the executive branch for his or her state |
suburb | a community that grows outside of a larger city |
what is a university | a school with several colleges that each focus on one area of study |
what is a skyscraper | a very tall building |