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SS Unit 2 TEST
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rural | not towns or cities |
| urban | many people work and live |
| Where does the largest population in Canada live | Near the border |
| Thomas Edison | inventor of the lightbulb |
| Eli Whitney | Inventor of the cotton gin |
| Mark Zuckerberg | Inventor of Facebook |
| George Washington Carver | Inventor of multiple ways to use peanuts; scientist-plant botany |
| Communism | Production, distribution , and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole |
| Capitalism | property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid accordingly to their abilities and needs |
| Socialism | trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit |
| Labor shortage | There are not enough people applying for jobs, or there are not enough people available to work even with good salaries offered |
| Natural Resource shortage | There are not enough good things (oil, gas, etc.) to go around for everyone who needs them. |
| Capital shortage | There isn't enough money or important tools to build and make things happen. |
| Entrepreneur shortage | There are not enough people in the world or a specific place coming up with new ideas or starting new things. |
| Migration | Movement from one place to another |
| Multiculturalism | Group establishes a settlement somewhere |
| Colonization | Preservation of different cultures within a society |