APHG Unit 7 Vocabulary Review

What is the term for the rapid transformation of the economy through the introduction of machines, new power sources, and new chemical processes in Europe and the United States between 1760 and 1830?

• Industrial Revolution

• Renaissance

• Cold War

• Age of Exploration

What is a fabric or cloth woven from the fibers of wool, cotton, or flax called?

• textile

• plastic

• ceramic

• metal

What is the average amount of goods or services produced per worker per unit of time called?

• Labor productivity

• Gross domestic product

• Capital investment

• Employment rate

What is natural fuel derived from the fossilized remains of living organisms called?

• Fossil Fuels

• Biofuels

• Nuclear Energy

• Solar Power

What is a yellowish-black liquid fossil fuel found in geologic deposits called?

• Crude Oil

• Natural Gas

• Coal

• Tar

What is the movement of people from the countryside to cities, driven by the search for better jobs, higher wages, and improved living conditions called?

• Rural to Urban Migration

• Urban to Rural Migration

• Seasonal Migration

• International Migration

What do you call farmers who raise crops and livestock to sell in the market at a profit rather than raising them for their own consumption?

• Commercial farmers

• Subsistence farmers

• Nomadic herders

• Tenant farmers

What is a socioeconomic relationship in which an employer pays a worker to complete a task, sometimes by the day or by the hour called?

• Wage labor

• Barter system

• Apprenticeship

• Sharecropping

What do you call the people in an industrial economy who depend on wage labor to obtain the necessities of life?

• Working class

• Capitalists

• Aristocrats

• Landowners

Who are the people who own the means of production and pay the wages of workers?

• Capitalist class

• Working class

• Feudal lords

• Bureaucrats