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50 Cards in this Set
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What was the order from the Lord to Adam to subdue the earth?
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dominion mandate
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What is man's "hard work" to make a living?
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industry
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What type of industry includes agriculture and mining?
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primary industry
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What type of farmer produces only enough for his household?
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subsistence farmer
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What is the name of the crop that farmers sell to raise money?
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cash crop
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What is the type of farmer who produces large cash crops for profit?
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commercial farmer
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What is subsistence husbandry?
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nomadic herding
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What are the useful substances that can be found in the earth?
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natural resource
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What are the solid crystals found in rocks that occur naturally and have a definite chemical composition?
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mineral
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What is the most important type of mineral that is shiny, malleable, ductile, and conductive?
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metal
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What is aluminum ore?
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bauxite
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What is the name for a combination of metals, such as steel?
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alloy
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What are the common minerals farmers add to soil to make it able to produce crops?
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fertilizer
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What types of fuels are made from the remains of living things?
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fossil fuel
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What type of fossil fuel is a solid rock?
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coal
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What is a liquid fossil fuel?
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petroleum
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What is a gaseous fossil fuel?
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natural gas
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What industries take raw materials and change them into a useful form?
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secondary industry
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What are the natural resources that have been extracted by primary industries?
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raw material
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What refers to big businesses and machines that turn raw materials into new products?
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manufacturing
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What is the period of radical change from 1750 to 1850?
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Industrial Revolution
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What is the application of modern science to industry called?
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technology
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What is the oil called that is the dark liquid that comes out of the ground?
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crude oil
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What are the light chemicals that are converted after being extracted from kerosene?
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petrochemicals
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What are the industries that produce services?
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tertiary industry
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What are the basic energy and equipment needs of all industries?
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infrastructure
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How is electricity measured? It is the amount of work done by one thousand watts in one hour.
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kilowatt hour (kWh)
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What type of resource will run out some day?
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nonrenewable resource
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What type of resource has a virtually unlimited supply and produces relatively little pollution?
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renewable resource
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How are ideas and information passed on to a large group of people?
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mass communication
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What industry prints the three major forms of publications?
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publishing industry
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Sending messages through electronic impulses is called what?
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telecommunications
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What businesses buy goods in large quantities from producers to sell in smaller quantities to other businesses?
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wholesale business
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What business sells goods directly to customers?
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retail business
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What is the study of the choices about the best way to develop and distribute goods and services?
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economics
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What is the money used to build industries?
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capital
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What is the economic system under which private individuals or corporations build most industries?
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capitalism
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What is another name for capitalism because businesses freely compete in the markeplace?
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free market
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What is the economic system under which the government owns the major industries?
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socialism
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What is the monetary value of all the goods and services produced for sale within a country's borders over the course of a year?
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
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What is the average value of products produced by each person in the country?
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per capita GDP
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What is the difference between the raw materials of an item and its final worth?
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value added
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What are the seven countries called that produce over three-fourths of all value added by manufacture?
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Group of 7 (G-7)
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What countries have a wide range of industries that take full advantage of their people's skills?
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developed country
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What countries have high GDP by virtue of their large population, but the per capita GDP is very low?
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developing country
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What are the people or businesses that buy products from an industry?
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market
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What are the goods shipped to other countries?
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export
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What is the opposite of protectionism?
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free trade
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What is the permanent body with one representative for every nation that was established in 1987?
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World Trade Organization (WTO)
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What are the taxes on imports and exports?
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tariff
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