Landforms
The gradual destruction or diminution of something by wind, water, or other natural agents.
What is EROSION?
Water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.
What is GROUNDWATER?
A natural, but non-renewable fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.
What is FOSSIL FUEL?
The number of live births per thousand of population per year.
What is BIRTH RATE?
The total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year.
What is GDP? (gross domestic product)
Triangular area of sediment deposited at the mouth (end) of a river, where it diverges into several outlets.
What is DELTA?
Water that has been used in the home, in a business, or as part of an industrial process.
What is WASTEWATER? (gray water also acceptable)
A resource which can be used repeatedly and replaced naturally because it does not deplete.
What is RENEWABLE RESOURCE?
The number of people living in a relative area (e.g., per square mile).
What is POPULATION DENSITY?
The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
What is GLOBALIZATION?
Land that is suitable for growing crops.
A crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
What is CASH CROP?
Electricity produced from generators driven by turbines that convert the potential energy of falling or fast-flowing water, like Ethiopia's GERD?
The pattern of where people live across a specific region or the entire globe.
What is POPULATION DISTRIBUTION?
Obtain (goods or a service) from an outside or foreign supplier, especially in place of an internal source.
What is OUTSOURCING?
A seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, bringing extensive rain.
What is MONSOON?
The deterioration of the environment through depletion of/damage to resources like air, water, and soil.
What is ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION?
The amount of technically and economically recoverable oil.
What is OIL RESERVES?
The average period that a person may expect to live.
A corporate organization that owns or controls production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country.
What is MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATION?
A group or chain of islands clustered together in a sea or ocean.
What is ARCHIPELAGO?
The process by which water-soluble salts accumulate in the soil, often hindering crop growth.
What is SALINIZATION?
Heat energy generated and stored within the Earth.
Five-stage model that explains how birth rates, death rates, and total population change as a country develops.
What is DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION MODEL?
A characteristic of a society or world with a high degree of division of labor, where people or nations depend on others for products they cannot easily produce themselves.
What is ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE?