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Social Studies Words
Beginning Words
Question | Answer |
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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 |