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GW Exam
World Geography Exam Reaview
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Absolute Advantage | Your society is the best at making a good/service. |
| Adam Smith | Three purposes of: 1.)They should protect our society from going to war 2.)Should protect everyone individually from other individuals in the society. 3.)They should help keep public works and institutions that are needed and cannot be given by people |
| Aesthetic | It looks pretty but it has no purpose |
| Aristocracy | Ruled by wealthy educated people. |
| Art and Architecture (EFOC) | Pyramids and bridges |
| Articles | A chapter, section,or portion of a larger document. |
| Articles of Confederation | 1.) FAILED 2.)It Was the very first constitution 3.)Replaced by the US Constitution |
| Assimilation | Adopting something as part of your culture |
| Authoritarian | The government has lots of power that is used to control people. |
| Balance of Trade | Relationship between your imports and your exports. |
| Bar Graph | Useful for comparing facts. |
| Basic Economic Questions | 1.)What goods/services are produced? 2.)How will those good/services be produced? 3.)Who gets the goods/services that are produced? |
| Bureaucracy | Important decisions are made by state officials instead of Representative. |
| Censorship | The control of information or objects. |
| Cities (EFOC) | Raleigh,NC Denver, Colorado |
| Command Economic System | Decisions made by the government/ leadership of the society. |
| Comparative Advantage | Your society can make a good/service more efficiently. |
| Complex Religion (EFOC) | Christian, Judaism |
| Constitution | A document outlining the government |
| Creative Destruction | When you create something new that make the product it took the place of obsolete. |
| Cultural Diffusion | The spreading of your culture |
| Declaration of Independence | |
| Democracy - Direct | When people use it themselves |
| Democracy - Indirect/ Republic | When is elected or a Representative of the people. |
| Dictatorship | Takes or keeps power by force |
| Economics | Is the study of how individuals and groups make decisions about how to use scarce resources to satisfy their unlimited wants and needs. |
| Embargo | Restriction to trade with a country- often as a political punishment. |
| Environmental Determinism | The environment determines what humans can do. |
| Environmental Possibilism | Humans can change the environment. |
| Ethnicity | Your culture or social group |
| European Union | The EU wanted to keep peace, build alliances and promote human rights and freedom throughout Europe |
| Exports | Goods/services you ship out of country and into another society. |
| Functional | It serves a purpose. |
| Globalization | The movement and interaction between different nations by people, companies and the government. Pro:Could help companies grow. Con:Could start a war between countries. |
| Horizontal Axis | Also called the x-axis. |
| Human-Environmental Interaction | How the humans adapt to and modify the environment. EX.In NC, people Ski in the mountains and participate in many water sports such as boating and water skiing; agriculture is an important economic activity, such as fishing. |
| Imports | Goods/services you bring into your county from another society. |
| Job Specialization (EFOC) | Teacher, firefighter |
| John Locke | Natural Rights- Life, Liberty and property. |
| Laissez-faire | The government has almost no involvement in the economy. |
| Legend | Tells what all the colors or designs mean. |
| Line Graph | Useful when displaying information that changes over time or the correlation/ relationship between two things. |
| Location - Absolute | Provides a definite reference like longitude or latitude, or a street address. |
| Location- Relative | Describes a place with respect to its environment and connection to other places. EX.The relative location of NC is between Virginia and South Carolina. Or its East of Tennessee. |
| Market/Capitalist economic system | Also can be called Free market or Free Enterprise economy. Decisions are made my individual. |
| Marx and Engels | Wanted no government. |
| Mixed Economic System | Not purely/ exclusively one type of government, but it has the characteristics of more then one types of government. |
| Monarchy - Absolute | When somewhere is ruled by a single person. |
| Monarchy - Limited | The leader has limited rule because of the constitution. |
| Monotheist | Belief or worship on one God. |
| Movement (FTOG) | Humans move a lot. In addition ideas fads, goods, resources, and communication travel. EX. People in NC move on highways like I-40 and I-95, rivers like the Neuse river and planes from major airports like RDU. Also through technology. |
| North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) | A free trade agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico. |
| Neolithic Revolution | |
| Nomadic | |
| Oligarchy | When the middle class runs. |
| Organized Central Government (EFOC) | Dictatorship |
| Outsourcing | When jobs are sent to other places because it cheaper. |
| Physical Map | Shows physical features or land forms such as mountains, lakes or rivers. |
| Pie Graph | Also called a circle graph. Shows how the parts are related to the whole. |
| Place (FTOG) | Human and physical characteristics of a location. EX.NC has beaches, mountain, and Piedmont;primary language is English; dominate religion is Christian; state grows a lot of sweet potatoes , tobacco and Christmas trees. |
| Political Map | Shows boundaries and borders for countries, states, or territories. |
| Polytheist | The belief or worship of more then one God. |
| Preamble | The introduction into any document. |
| Projection | Going from 3D to 2D. |
| Protectionism | Protecting your business from foreign industries by trade barriers, tariffs, embargoes, or Quotas. |
| Public Works (EFOC) | The great wall of China Grain warehouse in Egypt |
| Quota | Limits on the amount of a good/service which can be traded. |
| Region (FTOG) | A region has some sort of characteristic that unifies the area. EX. NC is in the vernacular regions of the South, and the bible belt, its zone 7 for landscaping or plant hardness. k |
| Resource Map | Also called an economic map. It shows economic activities and/or natural resources of an area. |
| Scale | The horizontal scale across the bottom and the vertical scale across the side tell is how much or how many. |
| Social Classes (EFOC) | The way a society divides itself. The castle system in India |
| Tariff | Taxes |
| Technology use for/ against the authoritarian Government | For: They can tell people things and make them believe things Against: The people can find thing on the internet or start a protest on the internet |
| The communist manifesto | |
| The Constitution of the United States | |
| Theocracy | Government is based on a specific religion. |
| The wealth of nations | |
| Thomas Jefferson | Unaliable rights - life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. |
| Topographic Map | Shows elevation of an area. |
| Trade | To exchange goods/services with another country. To access good/service your country can produce or to access markets where you can sell a surplus of goods. |
| Trade Barriers | Obstacles which prevent countries from being able to trade. Can be man-made or natural. |
| Trade Deficit | When imports are grater then exports. |
| Trade Surplus | When exports are greater then imports. |
| Traditional Economic System | Decisions are made in the past. (Perhaps when the society was founded) |
| Tyranny | A person or the act of abusing their power. |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
| United Nations | Created after WWII. The goal is to keep peace and stop wars. |
| Vertical Axis | Also called the y-axis. |
| World Trade Organization (WTO) | Helps negotiate trade agreements all over the world. |
| Writing (EFOC) | First alphabet is from the Phoenicians. First form of writing is Cuneiform. |
| Three Economic Questions | 1.) What goods/services are produced? 2.)How will the goods/services be produced? 3.)Who gets the goods/services produced? |
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