Chapter 22 (Unit 5)

Question 1

The application of machinery to manufacturing and other activities.

Answer 1

Mechanization

Question 2

A very large, heavily populated city or urban complex.

Answer 2

Megalopolis

Question 3

Workers or working-class people, regarded collectively (often associated with Marxism)

Answer 3

Proletariat

Question 4

A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses and as a result assumes financial risk.

Answer 4

Entrepreneur

Question 5

The development of industry or industries in a country or region on a wide scale.

Answer 5

Industrialization

Question 6

A doctrine opposing governmental interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintenance of property rights.

Answer 6

Laissez faire

Question 7

A philosophical system that holds that every rationally justifiable assertion can be scientifically verified.

Answer 7

Positivism

Question 8

The action or fact of spreading something, especially information.

Answer 8

Dissemination

Question 9

Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.

Answer 9

Socialism

Question 10

Dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments.

Answer 10

Precarious