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Social Studies
Quiz Bowl Packet Flash Cards - Using Context Clues
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This Palestinian leader shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres for his role in signing this agreement. | Yasser Arafat (Oslo Accords) |
| Ahmed Qurei served as the primary negotiator for this Palestinian leader during the Oslo peace process. | Yasser Arafat |
| This leader gave a controversial speech in a Johannesburg mosque comparing the Oslo Accords to the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah that Mohammed signed about praying in Mecca. | Yasser Arafat |
| This Palestinian leader was a co-founder of the Fatah movement, the dominant faction within the PLO. | Yasser Arafat |
| Since this Palestinian leader's death in 2004, Mahmoud Abbas has held many of the positions he once occupied. | Yasser Arafat |
| Name the first president of the Palestinian National Authority, who died in 2004. | Yasser Arafat |
| This Palestinian leader, along with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 for their efforts toward Middle East peace. | Yasser Arafat |
| This co-founder of Fatah became the first president of the Palestinian National Authority, won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for the Oslo Accords, used Ahmed Qurei as his negotiator, and died in 2004 to be succeeded by Mahmoud Abbas. | Yasser Arafat |
| What economic term describes the responsiveness or sensitivity of one variable to changes in another variable? | Elasticity |
| What quantity appears in the formula where the derivative of marginal revenue equals price times quantity times (1 + 1/this quantity)? | Elasticity (specifically price elasticity of demand) |
| What term has both "point" and "arc" types, where the point type uses differential calculus and the arc type divides one percentage change by another? | Elasticity |
| When demand is very sensitive or responsive to changes in price, what type of demand is this called? | Elasticity demand |
| What term describes currency that can be expanded or contracted by a federal bank, relating to the flexibility of the money supply? | Elastic (as in "elastic currency") |
| What economic measure is calculated by dividing the percentage change in quantity demanded by the percentage change in price? | (Price) Elasticity of demand |
| What is the general term for measuring the change in one economic variable with respect to another economic variable? | Elasticity |
| Name this state whose most populous city is Charlotte. | North Carolia |
| This national park is on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. | Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
| This cape goes into the Atlantic Ocean near Wilmington, North Carolina. Wilmington is on the river named for this cape. | Cape Fear |
| Name this largest hot desert in the world. | Sahara Desert [accept Western Sahara] |
| This region of Africa is a transition between the Sahara Desert and the savannas south of it. | Sahel |
| This river in the Sahel forms the border between Mauritania [maw-rih-TAY-nee-uh] and the Atlantic coast country this river shares its name with. | Senegal River |
| This 1862 law gave 160 acres of public land to settlers who lived on and improved it for five years. | Homestead Act (of 1862) |
| This law set the stage for the Exoduster Movement of 1879, when African Americans migrated westward to claim free land. | Homestead Act (of 1862) |
| This 1862 law was similar to the Preemption Act of 1841 but eliminated the purchase costs required by that earlier legislation. | Homestead Act (of 1862) |
| The Timber Culture Act of 1873 extended this law by offering additional land to settlers who planted trees. | Homestead Act (of 1862) |
| Though not directly related to the Civil War, this law's passage was aided by Southern secession, as Southerners had worried it would create antislavery majorities in territories. | Homestead Act (of 1862) |
| This 1862 land distribution law is famous for granting parcels of this specific size—160 acres—to qualifying settlers. | Homestead Act (of 1862) |
| This law required claimants to live on their land claim and make improvements for five years before receiving full ownership. | Homestead Act (of 1862) |
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Patrick Angotti
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