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Unit 1 vocab history
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a person that makes, grows, or supplies something | Producer |
| what is given up when a choice is made | Opportunity Cost |
| doing work for someone | Services |
| the inability to satisfy all wants at the same time, resources and goods are limited and thus choices must be made | Scarcity |
| amount of a good or service that producers are willing to sell at a certain price | Supply |
| natural, human, and capital resources are used in the production of goods and services | Resources |
| to exchange something for something else | Trade |
| things that motivate; used to change economic behavior | Incentives |
| a person that uses something | Consumer |
| economic activity between various countries; can be positive and negative | Global economy |
| money exchanged for a good or service, based on supply and demand | Price |
| a useful item | Goods |
| amount of a good or service that consumers are able to buy at a certain price | Demand |
| selecting an item or action from a set of possibilities | Choice |
| study of evidence and artifacts from to learn about people and their cultures | archaeology |
| below freezing, snow, Inuit | Arctic |
| heavily forested, 4 seasons, Iroquois | Eastern Woodlands |
| dry, desert, arid, Pueblo | Southwest |
| hunted, fished, fur, igloo, whale, arctic | Inuit |
| plank house, potlach, totem pole, salmon, Pacific Northwest | Kwakiutl |
| things that come directly from nature: fish, water, stones | natural resource |
| people working to produce goods and services: hunters, fisherman, gatherers | human resource |
| goods produced and used to make other goods and services: tools | capital resource |
| rainy, mild climate, Pacific Ocean, Kwakiutl | Pacific Northwest Coast |
| dry grasslands, flat, extreme weather, Lakota | Great Plains |
| corn, squash, beans, adobe homes, southwest, cotton | Pueblo |
| hunted, farmed, corn, squash, beans, longhouses, woodlands, government | Iroquois |
| A smaller stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river | Tributary |
| bison, teepees, nomadic, great plains | Lakota |
| Elevated land with a flat top and steep sides | Plateau |
| Area of land, completely surrounded by water on all sides | Island |
| An area of water, partially surrounded by land | Gulf |
| An area that is flat | Plain |
| Water surrounded by land, smaller than a gulf | Bay |
| Area of land, surrounded by water on three sides | Peninsula |