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M.E. Set 1 #5
GDP, Specialization, Embargo, Quota
Question | Answer |
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Literacy Rate | The percentage of adults who can read and write. |
Nomad | A member of a people or tribe that has no permanent residence but moves about from place to place. |
Monarchy | A government headed by a King or a Queen. |
Theocracy | A government controlled by religious leaders. |
Distribution | The way that something is divided or spread out. |
Scarcity | When there are not enough resources to produce everything people need and want. |
Fertile Crescent | The arable region in the Middle East where the civilizations of the Middle East and the Mediterranean basin began. |
Desalination | The process of taking salt out of seawater and using it for drinking water. |
Parliamentary Government | A form of democracy where the leader IS a member of the legislature. |
Presidential Government | A form of democracy where the leader is NOT a member of the legislature. |
Arabs | A group of people originally from the Arabian Peninsula. Most (not all) are Muslims. |
Persians | A group of people who trace their history back to ancient Persian Empire. |
Qu’ran/Koran | The sacred book of the Islamic faith. |
Ethnic Group | A group of people that share a common heritage, race, language, customs, beliefs, and sometimes religion. |
Private Enterprise | People running their own businesses |
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries | OPEC stands for ..... |
Quota | A way of limiting the amount of foreign goods that can come into a country. |
Embargo | When a country announces that it will no longer trade with another country. |
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | the total market value of the goods and services produced by a country in a specific year |
Specialization | Those products a country makes best and that are in demand on the world market. |