Midterm 2

Question 1

What are the most basic industries like agriculture, fishing, forestry, and mining: secondary industries or primary industries

Answer 1

Primary industries

Question 2

These farmers made their own clothes, furniture, and homes: cash farmers or subsistence farmers

Answer 2

Subsistence farmers

Question 3

These farmers raise large cash crops for profit: commercial farmers or science farmers

Answer 3

Commercial farmers

Question 4

This farming is common in rugged mountains and dry areas where regular farming is difficult: nomadic herding or tribal farming

Answer 4

Nomadic herding

Question 5

The cultivation or farming in a controlled artificial environment: aquaculture or permaculture

Answer 5

Aquaculture

Question 6

Solid crystals that occur naturally and have a definite chemical composition: wax or minerals

Answer 6

Minerals

Question 7

Gold, silver, and platinum are types of these metals

Answer 7

Precious metals

Question 8

Copper, lead, and iron are mined in great quantities and are considered to be this type of metal

Answer 8

Common metal

Question 9

The ore of aluminum: bauxite or gold

Answer 9

Bauxite

Question 10

The combination of common metals into one: alloys or tin

Answer 10

Alloys

Question 11

What fuel generates most of the world’s electricity: coal or water

Answer 11

Coal

Question 12

These types of industries, like construction, take raw materials and change them into useful form

Answer 12

Secondary industries

Question 13

Big businesses and machines that turn right materials into new products on a large scale: crafting or manufacturing

Answer 13

Manufacturing

Question 14

The application of science to industry: technology or biology

Answer 14

Technology

Question 15

Goods and products that lasts less than a year: nondurable goods or Starbucks

Answer 15

Nondurable goods

Question 16

Products that last more than a year like lumber, stone, and glass: trusted goods or durable goods

Answer 16

Durable goods

Question 17

These industries are also known as service industries and include teaching, advertising, and cleaning: tertiary industries or third industries

Answer 17

Tertiary industries

Question 18

What provides electricity, gas, water, sewage, and trash collection: utilities or fossil fuels

Answer 18

Utilities

Question 19

The study of the process by which people in countries make choices about money, resources, goods, and services: economics or philosophy

Answer 19

Economics

Question 20

The money and equipment necessary to build industries: free market or capital

Answer 20

Capital

Question 21

The most common measurement of a country’s wealth

Answer 21

GDP

Question 22

Taxes on imports and exports: embargo or tariff

Answer 22

Tariff

Question 23

A ban on importing or exporting certain products or trading with a particular country: embargo or economics

Answer 23

Embargo

Question 24

The different speech patterns within a single language: linguist or dialect

Answer 24

Dialect

Question 25

The most prominent language family: French or Indo European

Answer 25

Indo European

Question 26

The foundation of a society: workers or family

Answer 26

Family

Question 27

A large group of people with a common history and language that have developed a strong sense of identity: state or nation

Answer 27

Nation

Question 28

A nation of people that has established its own government: nation – state or oligarchy

Answer 28

Nation – state

Question 29

A country's unlimited authority to run affairs within its own borders: sovereignty or socialism

Answer 29

Sovereignty

Question 30

A country's boundaries that follow the twists and turns of rivers and mountains: natural boundaries or political boundaries

Answer 30

Natural boundaries

Question 31

When people within a state's borders fight their own government

Answer 31

Civil War

Question 32

Official records of births, marriages, divorces, and deaths: vital statistics or surveys

Answer 32

Vital statistics

Question 33

Subtracting the number of deaths from the number of births equals: rate of natural increase or GDP

Answer 33

Rate of natural increase

Question 34

The number of years a person is expected to live

Answer 34

Life expectancy

Question 35

Number of children born per 1000 people

Answer 35

Crude birth rate

Question 36

The average number of people who live on each square mile of land: population density or longevity

Answer 36

Population density

Question 37

Land that can be used to plant crops: wetlands or arable land

Answer 37

Arable land

Question 38

With no formal government exist and people do whatever they want

Answer 38

Anarchy

Question 39

A type of government where a dictator rules by authority of the military

Answer 39

Dictatorship

Question 40

Originally described as a government in which the whole population ruled: democracy or authoritarianism

Answer 40

Democracy

Question 41

Set of principles that guide a governments international relations: AMP or foreign policy

Answer 41

Foreign-policy

Question 42

Three ways one state can influence its neighbor

Answer 42

Foreign trade, foreign aide, and threat of military attack

Question 43

Dangerous nations that ignore the most fundamental principles of international relations: rogue nations or diversity

Answer 43

Rogue nations

Question 44

All people have the right to vote for the type of government they will have: total integrity or self-determination

Answer 44

Self-determination

Question 45

Defensible Borders: territorial integrity or peacekeepers

Answer 45

Territorial integrity