Across
- 7. A tax that is placed on imported goods when they enter a country.
- 12. On a particular resource in order to be successful.
- 13. 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. Was 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. 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 under the euro,a common currency.
- 26. The practice of protecting a country’s local business or industry.
Down
- 1. Business owners and consumers still make most of the economic decisions.
- 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. The transmission of cultural elements,such as custorms,ideas,and religions,from one group to another.
- 4. Service industries that offer service 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. 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. Often have a high gross domestic product,which is the total value of goods and services sold during a period of time,usually a year.
- 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. Can be either international,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 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.