Question
click below
click below
Question
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Social Studies vocab
Question | Answer |
---|---|
Communism | the government owns all large businesses and most of the country's land |
Citizen | are individuals with certain rights and responsibilities under a particular government |
Ally | a state formally cooperating with another for a military or other purpose |
Illiterate | unable to read or write |
Exile | a person who leaves his or her homeland for another country because of political problems |
Creole | is a work referring to people of mixed ancestry |
Commonwealth | is a place that has its own government but also has has strong ties to another country |
altiplano | a high plateau region in the Andes |
savanna | a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions with few trees |
coup | a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government |
oasis | a fertile spot in a desert where water is found |
circumnavigate | to go around the globe |
Privatization | transfer from public to private ownership |
Glacier | a slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles |
Sierra | the mountains that run from northwest to southeast in Peru |
Canopy | leaves that form a dense mass at the top of the trees |