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What was Cryus McCormick famous for | Invented the first mechanical reaper to harvest wheat |
What does gross domestic product represent | the market value of all officially recognized final goods and services produced within a country in a year, or other given period of time. GDP per capita is often considered an indicator of a country's standard of living |
What is per capita income | the total national income divided by the number of people in the nationiu |
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What is the Prime Meridian | the planet’s line of zero degrees longitude. Slicing the earth along the circle of the prime meridian would divide it into the Eastern and Western hemispheres |
What is legislature | a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state |
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Taxes collected by the government are used for what | Financing the operations of all government agencies, payment of governmental debt, foriegn aid and social programs |
Smog | Pollutants in the air from industry, transportation and power generation and flactuants of cattle :)))) |
Acid rain | Acid rain is rain that has been made acidic by certain pollutants in the air. |
Water pollution | Water pollution is any chemical, physical or biological change in the quality of water that has a harmful effect on any living thing that drinks or uses or lives |
Erosion | the process by which the surface of the earth is worn away by the action of water, glaciers, winds, waves, etc |
What did the Declaration of Independence state | Document that declared the desire of the citizens of the 13 colonies to be free from British rule |
The Bill of Rights Declared | The first 10 ammendents made to the constitutuion (there are 27 in all) |
What doesThe Constitution of the United States contain | The supreme law of the United States. It establishes the 3 branches (judiciary, presedential and supreme) and what powers they have |
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Consumers | Are those that are buyers of merchandise |
Producers | Corporations, farmers or business that produce a product |
Good and services | Businesses that make money through providing a public or personal service and charge for it, ie. Landscaping business, accountants |
Scarcity | A lack of something |
What is a tarriff | Tax on an import or export |
What is immigration | People entering another coutry than their homeland with the intention to take up residency |
What is a census | Government ordered count of thier countries population. Used to get information regarding ages, sex, income, nationality, etc |
What is a biography | Written account of an individual written by someone other than themselves |
What is an autobiography | A novel written by an individual about thir own life experience |
what is a "standard of living" referring to | the degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community. |
What is a political party and what are the main two | A political party is a group people who share the same ideas about the way the country should be run. Main two are the Republicans (conservative) and Democrats (liberals) |
What is effected by the earths axix | change of seasons, weather, climate, and adaptation |
What are tectonic plates | Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over the mantle. Earthquakes occur when they collide suddenly and rub. |
What is manufacturing | the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets. |
What are some types of natural resources | Renewable, water, wood, solar, wind, land,water and nonrenewable, coal, minerals, oil, nuclear, natural gas, |
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