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Social Science
Question | Answer |
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Mayan Empire | Caribbean Sea |
Carthaginian Empire | Mediaterrian Sea |
Vikings | Atlantic Ocean |
Turkish | Altai Mountains |
China, North Korea, South Korea | Yellow River |
Product Markets | firms sell their PRODUCTION of goods and services |
Factor Markets | Households sell the factors of production (land, labor, capital) that they control |
Trees | Renewable |
Food Crops | Renewable |
Algae | Renewable |
Agricultural and forestry byproducts | Renewable |
Water | Renewable |
Geothermal Energy | Renewable |
Wind | Renewable |
Solar | Renewable |
Petroleum, Oil | Non Renewable |
Coal | Non Renewable |
Natural Gas | Non Renewable |
Nuclear Energy | Non Renewable |
Animals | Renewable |
Ask a question | #1 Scientific Method |
Do Background research | #2 Scientific Method |
Construct a Hypothesis | #3 Scientific Method |
Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment | #4 Scientific Method |
Analyze Your Data and Draw a Conclusion | #5 Scientific Method |
Communicate your results | #6 Scientific Method |
Greece | Modern-Nation State: Citizenship |
State | |
Nation-State | Share a cultural identity |
Nation-State | Share a common goal |
Nation-State | Nationalism |
Nation-State | Many different views on how to achieve the goal |
Nation | People that want a government |
Nation | May or may not have state |
State | Political Unit over a set territory |
State | Sovereignty |
State | Rousseau-"Harmony" ownership of land lead to the conflict and social inequality |
State | Hobbs-"Contract" inequality came to survive among the people |
Nation | Common grouping... language, religion, heritage |
Nation | Focus is on the people and the culture |
State | Organized economy |
State | Has power of social engineering, such as education |
State | Has a transportation system for moving goods and people |
State | Has a government which provides public services and police power |
Advantage of Globalization (Nation-State) | Resources of different countries are used for producing goods and services they are able to do most efficiently |
Advantage of Globalization (Nation-State) | Consumers to get much wider variety of products to choose from |
Advantage of Globalization (Nation-State) | Companies are able to procure input goods and services required at most competitive prices |
Advantage of Globalization (Nation-State) | Companies get access to much wider markets |
Advantage of Globalization (Nation-State) | It promotes understanding and goodwill among different countries |
Advantage of Globalization (Nation-State) | Businesses and investors get much wider opportunities for investment |
Advantage of Globalization (Nation-State) | Adverse impact of fluctuations in agricultural productions in one area can be reduced by pooling of production of different areas. |
Disadvantages of Globalization (Nation-State) | Developed countries can stifle development of undeveloped and under-developed countries |
Disadvantages of Globalization (Nation-State) | Economic depression in on country can trigger adverse reaction across the globe |
Disadvantages of Globalization (Nation-State) | It can increase spread of communicable diseases |
Disadvantages of Globalization (Nation-State) | Companies face much greater competition. This can put smaller companies, at a disadvantage as they do not have resources to compete at global scale. |
Bureaucratic Government | Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with nonelected officials |
Bureaucratic Government | Management or administration marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures |
Bureaucratic Government | An administrative system in which the need or inclination to follow rigid or complex procedures impedes effective action |
Democratic Government | Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives |
Democratic Government | A political or social unit that has such a government |
Democratic Government | The common people, considered as the primary source of political power |
Democratic Government | Majority rule |
Democratic Government | The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community. |
Fiscal Policy | Stabilization |
Fiscal Policy | Use of public expenditures and taxation powers by the government to change the outcomes of the economy |
Fiscal Policy | Example: How much and who the government will tax and spend the revenues |
Monetary Policy | Avails itself of the influence of income and cred available to individuals and firms |
Monetary Policy | The use of money and credit controls to affect economic outcomes |
Monetary Policy | Banks, Interest Rates |
Fiscal and Monetary Fail... | Budget Policy |
Protectionist Policies | Policy that restricts trade to protect domestic tariffs, quotas |
Mexican Agriculture slowdown | reforms and US economy |
Chaparral | (Mediterranean Climate) shrubland vegetation-shrub woodland dominated by hard leaved trees & shrubs that w/stand severe summer aridity |
Equal area maps | Distort the shape but keep the size... round (globe) to flat (paper) |
Savanna | a vegetation type characterized by grasses and scattered trees, characteristic of seasonally dry tropical climates |
Steppe | A vegetation type characterized by relatively short, sparse grasses, found in midlatitude semiarid climates |
Boreal Forest | An evergreen needleleaf forest characteristic of cold continental climates |
Tropical Rain Forest | Broadleaf evergreen vegetation characteristic of humid tropical environments |
Conflict Theory | natural conditions of society are constant change and conflict resulting from class struggles... inequality |
Functionalist Theory | Social Inequality is reviewed as inevitable because society must use rewards to ensure that essential task are preformed... order and stability=equilibrium |
Labeling Theory | Deviance is not inherent to an act but instead focuses on tendency of majorities to negatively label minorities or those seen as deviant from standard cultural norms |
Social Deviance | departure from the social norms |
Social Science | ...Deviance... Socialization |
Psychologists | ...Abnormal... medical |
Freud | is sexual |
Erickson | is psycho |
Piaget | is cognitive |
Kohlberg | has morals |
Freud | has 6 steps |
Erickson | has 8 steps |
Piaget | has 5 steps |
Kohlberg | has 3 steps |
Anthropology | Study of biology and humans=relationships in groups |
Economics | studies the system in how humans try to survive... who gets what and why |
Geography | The physical economics |
History | records of human behavior and relationships |
Political Science | study of power |
Psychology | forces that shape and motivate individuals=minds and personality |
Natural Selection | "Survive" in their environment, Darwin... genes passed on... a reaction to their environment |
Oligarchy | Rule by a few... oli=few, archy=rule by |
Nation-State | Sovereignty, Cultural entity, nationalism, central government |
Authoritarianism | Up to the individual |
Totalitarianism | Incomplete control |
Ottoman Empire | Indian Ocean (Middle East) |
Fukuyama | industrial movements & growth are the key to social interactions |
Thurow | Fukuyama thought helps but creativity it the KEY changing the old to new brings expansion |
Pluralism | unity as a nation not on heritage |
Sex | Biologically Born male or female |
Gender | what you do according to your cultural and environment |
Small-Scale Map | Shows more distance of the earth but less details of the area |
Large-Scale Map | Shows less distance of the earth but more details of the area |
Topographical Map | Terrain, man made features, pictures, colors, symbols, specific lines... contour lines for elevation |
Mercator Map Projections | Simplifies |
Mercator Map Projections | conformal map, grid... lines are longitude and latitude and fits on a page. Used for navigation |
Cartograms | distorted qualities intentionally... show emphasis on something. |
Conformal Map | distort the size but shape stays the same |
Equal Area Map | Explain data... population, density, medical |
Equal Area Map | Relationship Size... preserve area (Distort the shape but keep the size) |
World War 1 | demolishing empires leading to more sovereignty and nationalism |
Democrat Socialism | economy and society should be run democratically to meet public needs... not to make profits for a few |
Democratic Capitalism | All for $$$ |
Tundra | cold, permafrost, little vegetation; parts of Canada |
Ecosystem | living organisms; where and what they live in; climate affects ecosystem and affects physical features |
Producers | Produce food themselves |
Consumers | Feed on producers and consumer |
Decomposers | Small organisms that feed, digest, and thrive on dead organisms |
Subarctic | cold for long periods; lots of snow; blow freezing; Canada Siberia Russia |
Ice Caps | extremely little rain, permafrost thick, below freezing year round; Artic and Antarctica |
Humid Tropical | rainy, rainforest, warm and humid, south America Africa |
Seasonally Humid | specific dry season, extreme rain seasons for months, Himalaya's Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania |
Desert | Extreme Hot, low rainfall; Sahara Egypt Cairo |
Semiarid | receives enough precipitation sustain vegetation. transitions between desert and humid, long summers, cool season; steppes Western US China |
Mediterranean | Seasonal percip. cool/rainy and snow for winter. warm and dry summers; Europe Rome Pars of Africa |
Full Employment | 4.5% low rate of unemployment |
Economic Sectors | Primary (high paying jobs) high skills Secondary (lower paying jobs) low skills |
Labor Markets | Primary (agriculture) Secondary (industrial) Tertiary (service) |
Free Market | Market for profit, entrepreneurs |
Nomadic pastoral cultures | no farming, animals to pastor and eat |
Low population density | Low population growth |
High population density | High population growth but more diseases |
Agriculture | Food growth lead to high population... or if it was bad death and migration |
Inflation | demand of product can't be met by it's supply so prices increase causing inflation |
Federal Reserve Bank | Regulate what banks are doing and money flow; protect the people |
Tariff | import duty or cost... raise prices, make competitive |
Quota | limit on amount that comes in... protect domestic industry |
Social Diffusion | Spreading of something in cultures to other areas... example language |
Sedentary Agriculture | farmers grow crops year after year in one area... more success constant water flow |