Geography
Across
- 2. wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value. Also, the seat of government of a state or region.
- 4. the growth of cities and the migration of people into them
- 7. line of the global grid running from the North Pole to the South Pole through Greenwich, England; starting point for measuring degrees of east and west longitude
- 9. any of the 24 regions of the globe (loosely divided by longitude) throughout which the same standard time is used. They are generally 15 degrees apart.
- 11. global positioning system-group of satellites used to pinpoint absolute location
- 12. A system where one country extends its control over another area, especially for economic ($$$) benefit.
- 13. governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need
- 15. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
Down
- 1. belief in multiple Gods
- 2. an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.
- 3. an economic system in which the central government directs all major economic decisions
- 5. An arc that for the most part follows 180° longitude, although it deviates in several places to avoid dividing land areas. When you cross the International Date Line heading east (toward America), the clock moves back 24 hours, or one entire day. When you go west (toward Asia), the calendar moves ahead one day.
- 6. originating where it is found. Native to an area.
- 8. belief in a single God
- 10. the characteristics of a population with respect to age, race, and gender.
- 14. Geographic Information System.