| A | B |
| Ganges River | Garabage and sewage dumped into the river |
| Chang Jiang River | Industrial runoff in the river |
| Air Pollution | the burning of fossil fuels |
| Biomass Fuels | caused by cooking and heating |
| Custom and Tradition | plays biggest role in determining the answers to the basic economic questions in a traditional economy |
| Command Economy | economic decisions based on government planning |
| Mixed Economy | some government control and encouragement of entrepreneurship |
| North Korea | nation with close to a pure command economy |
| South Korea | nation with close to a pure market economy |
| Specialization | practice whereby a nation produces more efficiently than its trading partners |
| Tariff | one nation placing a tax on automobiles imported by another nation |
| Embargo | suspending all trade with a nation |
| Exchange Rates | calculate the value of one country's currency in terms of another |
| Currency | needed to buy goods and services |
| Literacy Rate | factor that heavily influences standard of living |
| Education | an investment needed to increase literacy rate |
| Human Capital | a country's workforce |
| Capital Goods | an investment effects a product's efficiency |
| India and China | nations with large amount of arable farmland |
| Natural Resources | Japan's lack make them the a large importer of agricultural products |