Chapter 7

Question 1

Health Maintenance Organization

Answer 1

An organization that provides/arranges managed care for health insurance, self-funded health care benefit plans, individuals, and other entities in the United States

Question 2

Uninsured Americans

Answer 2

Americans not covered by insurance

Question 3

Medicare

Answer 3

A federal health insurance program, administered by the Social Security Administration, that provides health care for the aged

Question 4

Medicaid

Answer 4

joint federal and state program that helps low-income individuals or families pay for the costs associated with long-term medical and custodial care, provided they qualify

Question 5

National Health Insurance

Answer 5

health insurance that insures a national population for the costs of health care and usually is instituted as a program of healthcare reform enforced by law

Question 6

Children’s Health Insurance Program

Answer 6

A program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children

Question 7

Health Security Act

Answer 7

A 1993 healthcare reform package proposed by the administration of President Bill Clinton

Question 8

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Answer 8

A United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010 that will ensure all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care

Question 9

EPA

Answer 9

An agency of the United States federal government whose mission is to protect human and environmental health

Question 10

National Environment Policy Act

Answer 10

A United States environmental law that established a U.S. national policy promoting the enhancement of the environment in 1970

Question 11

Environmental Impact Statements

Answer 11

The positive and negative environmental effects of a proposed action, (also lists one or more alternative actions that may be chosen instead of the action described)

Question 12

Clean Air Act 1970

Answer 12

Authorized the development of comprehensive federal and state regulations to limit emissions from both stationary (industrial) sources and mobile sources

Question 13

Water Pollution Control Act 1972

Answer 13

Legislation with the intent to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation’s waters by preventing point and nonpoint pollution sources

Question 14

Endangered Species Act 1973

Answer 14

Provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened, and the conservation of the ecosystems on which they live

Question 15

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

Answer 15

Gives EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste

Question 16

Superfund

Answer 16

A fund established to finance a long-term, expensive project

Question 17

Global Warming

Answer 17

A term used to describe a gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and its oceans

Question 18

Fossil Fuels

Answer 18

A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms

Question 19

Nuclear Energy

Answer 19

The energy released during nuclear fission or fusion, especially when used to generate electricity

Question 20

Alternative Energy

Answer 20

Energy generated in ways that do not deplete natural resources or harm the environment

Question 21

Foreign Policy

Answer 21

A government’s strategy in dealing with other nations

Question 22

United Nations

Answer 22

An international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries

Question 23

NATO

Answer 23

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (North Atlantic Alliance) is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949

Question 24

European Union

Answer 24

A politico-economic union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe (operates through a system of supranational institutions and intergovernmental negotiated decisions)

Question 25

Secretary of State

Answer 25

The head of the State Department, responsible for foreign affairs

Question 26

Secretary of Defense

Answer 26

The principal defense policy advisor to the President (exercises authority, direction, and control over the Department of Defense)

Question 27

National Security Council

Answer 27

The President’s principal forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and cabinet officials

Question 28

Joint Chief of Staff

Answer 28

A military advisory group composed of the chiefs of staff of the army and air force and the chief of naval operations

Question 29

Central Intelligence Agency

Answer 29

Foreign intelligence service of the U.S. Government, tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence

Question 30

Isolationism

Answer 30

A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries

Question 31

Containment Doctrine

Answer 31

A United States policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad

Question 32

Cold War

Answer 32

A state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular

Question 33

Arms Race

Answer 33

A competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons

Question 34

Detente

Answer 34

The easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries

Question 35

Interdependency

Answer 35

A mutual dependence between 2 or more thins (ex: countries)

Question 36

Tariff

Answer 36

A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports

Question 37

Balance of Trade

Answer 37

The difference in value between a country’s imports and exports

Question 38

OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)

Answer 38

A cartel that aims to manage the supply of oil in an effort to set the price of oil on the world market, in order to avoid fluctuations that might affect the economies of both producing and purchasing countries

Question 39

Foreign Aid

Answer 39

Money, food, or other resources given or lent by one country to another