Interconnected World
Across
- 7. a tax that is placed on imported goods when they enter a country.
- 12. refers to an economy's dependence on a particular resource in order to be successful.
- 13. includes manufacturing activities, which may be referred to as secondary production.
- 19. the movement of people from rural areas, usually called towns, to urban areas, which are called cities.
- 20. a trade pact signed in 1992 between the United States and its North American neighbors, Canada and Mexico.
- 21. The increasing interdependence of nations and peoples across the globe
- 22. a free market, is an economic system in which business owners decide what to produce, as well as and how to produce and distribute it.
- 24. one that has little industrial development and therefore a relatively low standard of living.
- 25. an economic region of Europe that is united under the euro, a common currency.
- 26. the practice of protecting a country’s local business or industry.
Down
- 1. sharing features of both market and command economies.
- 2. an economic system in which the central government plans what to produce and at what price, how to distribute it, and who may buy it.
- 3. Culture refers to the shared characteristics of a group of people.
- 4. includes service industries that offer services to other businesses and consumers.
- 5. an index designed by the United Nations to measure the basic contentment of people living in a particular country.
- 6. an economy is the part that makes direct use of natural resources.
- 8. an economic policy in which a nation does not try to limit imports or exports by enacting tariffs or subsidies.
- 9. an intergovernmental organization of the world’s major oil-exporting nations.
- 10. a country has significant industrial development and therefore a relatively high standard of living.
- 11. the informal name for India's large and popular movie industry.
- 14. policies put in place by a government to restrict trade with one country, with a group of countries, or with specific businesses or individuals.
- 15. when people move from one country to another, or internal, when they move within a given region or country.
- 16. the act of coming to a new country from one’s home country to live permanently.
- 17. refers to people’s quality of life based on the goods and services that are available to them.
- 18. the underlying foundation or framework of a system, organization, or location.
- 23. the process by which previously colonized countries free themselves from their colonizers.