Question | Answer |
Environment | Everything that surrounds us. |
Ecosystem | A single environment that includes all living and nonliving things in a certain area. |
Region | A large area with features, such as landforms and climate, that set it apart from other areas. |
Climate | Weather over a number of years. |
Census | Population count. |
Immigrants | People who leave one country to live in another country. |
Ethnic group | People who share the same customs, language, and history. |
Citizens | Someone who is born in a country or who becomes a member of that country by law. |
Economy | The way a country uses its natural resources, money and knowledge to produce goods and services. |
Supply | The amount of a product available at a certain price at one time. |
Demand | The amount of a product that people are willing to buy at a given price at any one time. |
Cost-benefit decision | A choice made to buy a product taking into consideration future benefits that will result from the product. |
Opportunity cost | The value of the second best choice when choosing between two things. |
Historians | People who study the past. |
Artifacts | Human made objects. |
Culture | Beliefs, customs and daily life of people in the past. |
Primary sources | Information that comes directly from a time period being studied. |
Secondary sources | Material written by a person who did not witness the event being studied. |