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Social Studies Words
Beginning Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The wealth and resources of a country or region in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services | Economy |
| send (goods or services) to another country for sale | Export |
| bring (goods or services) into a country from abroad for sale | Import |
| A group of emigrants or their descendants who settle in a distant territory but remain subject to or closely associated with the parent country | Colony |
| a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed | Resource |
| items held for sale in the regular course of business | Goods |
| the action of helping or doing work for someone | Services |
| a customer who buys the products or services a business produces | Consumer |
| a sovereign nation | Country |
| having to do with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services | Economics |
| an institution that determines and enforces a society’s laws. The size and nature of a government varies according to the society it governs | Govornment |
| to enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native | Immigration |
| the physical and mental exertion that human beings put into production activities | Labor |
| a set of rules, issued and enforced by a government that binds every member of society | Law |
| a culturally and politically unified group of people bound together by a strong sense of shared values, institutions and cultural characteristics | Nation |
| virtuous citizens display a devotion to their country in words and deeds, including devotion to the fundamental values and principles upon which it depends | Patriotism |
| the people who inhabit a political entity or region | Population |
| people who use resources to make goods and services | Producers |
| that which is legally owned by an individual or entity | Property |
| all natural, human and man-made aids to the production of goods and services. Also called productive resources | Resources |