Chapter Three Test 6th 1st Semester Final Flashcards
(20 cards)
Someone who speaks mulitipule lanuges is
bilingual
The Roman Empire fell, but the language the Romans spoke developed into many different languages. Why do you think the language didn’t fall with the empire.
They concured many places spreading their Language when they lost that land some people still spoke it their but it developed into different languages.
How have settlement patterns in Europe stayed the same over the centuries?
Many years ago people settled where the soil and climate as good and people still settle their today.
How have settlement patterns changed in Europe and why?
Technology and industry evolving make more people move to the city for new job opertuniteies.
What is a service sector Job?
A job that produces services instead of goods.
How could spending tax money on education today benefit our country twenty years from now?
Everyone would have better education making them smarter and better at the jobs they do.
What is human capital?
Employees knowledge and skills.
What are the major economic benefits of membership in the EU
You can trade with other countries in the EU and move freely among them
How is the power balance between the executive branch and the legislative branch diffrent than presidential and parlimenatary democracies?
In a presidential power is even but in parlimeantary legislative has more power because they choose the Prime Minister
What two bodies make up Briatans parlimient
House of commons and house of lords
What is British voters connection to the selection to the countries Prime Minister
citizens get to vote people into the house of commons who get to choose the Prime minister.
How can you tell that the legislature is the most powerful branch of government in a parlimentary democracy
They elect the Leader of the goverment or the prime minister
What is the risk and reward of nuclear power
It can produce much less polution then coal but it’s waste is dangurous.
____________ gasses that trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere and make the plant warmer.
greenhouse
___________ _______ is a process of long term change in Earth’s climate.
Climate Change.
Why is climate change especially threatening to cities that are close to sea level.
As glaciers melt the sea level will rise drowning those cites.
Why might imagration be nessacry as many European countyries birthrates decline?
People from other countries that are less developed might have more kids and increase the birthrate of Europe.
Who has the most power in a parlimentary democrocy
Parliment
Who creates laws in a parlimentary democracy
parlimeant
What is a key difference between presidetial and parlimentary democcracy
In one the leader is elected straight from the citizens in the other parliment elects the leader
