Geography
Resources
Economics
People and the land
Regions
100
Mountain ranges on the west coast of the US.
What are the Coast Ranges and the Sierra Nevada?
100
Example of this kind of resource are wood, fisheries, and corn
What are renewable resources?
100
When there are not enough resources to provide all that the people want. There was much of this during times of war.
What is scarcity?
100
City on the Pacific Coast that has a fine harbor and pleasant climate. Many people choose to live there and many companies are based there.
What is San Diego?
100
Two regions in the US that specialize in a certain type of product.
What are Wisconsin and Florida?
200
The middle of the US made up of this.
What is the plains?
200
Examples of these kinds of resources are oil, iron ore, copper, and coal.
What are nonrenewable resources?
200
When you have to give up something else to gain something.
What is opportunity cost?
200
Two ways that humans change the land.
What are highways and mining?
300
The 5 largest bodies of water inside the US.
What are the Great Lakes?
300
This kind of resources helps produce goods and services--machines, tools, buildings.
What is a capital resource?
300
The system in which people buy and sell goods, and the work that people do for others.
What is the economy?
300
A community of plants and animals and their surroundings.
What is an ecosystem?
300
Use the map on p. 23. This is one of the cities that has a marine climate.
What is Eureka or Portland?
400
The mountain range close to the east coast.
What are the Appalachians?
400
Resources that can only be used at a certain time or place and cannot be used up. Wind, sunlight, and water are examples.
What are flow resources?
400
The way in which people produce more goods and services at a lower cost and earn more money.
What is specialization?
400
Gold and silver were discovered here, so the city grew very large.
What is Denver, Colorado?
400
The four regions of the US.
What are Northeast, South, Midwest, and West.
500
Study of the world and the people and things that live there.
What is geography?
500
Workers in a factory, teachers, and farmers are examples of these kind of resource.
What are human resources?
500
The solution when one region doesn't have the resources that it needs.
What is trade/
500
Mountains wear down over time because of this
What is erosion?
500
This region has wide plains, a temperate climate, and agriculture is it's primary economic activity.
What is the Midwest?
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