Key Terms
Imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium.
What is communication?
The main rock type in the Caribbean
What is limestone?
Bauxite is extracted by
What is mining?
A harmful effect of deforestation on our wildlife
What is loss of habitat?
The practice of growing different types of crops in the same area over a sequence of growing seasons to improve soil health, reduce pests, and manage soil nutrients
What is crop rotation?
The dry solid part of the earth's surface
What are rocks?
Rocks that are transformed by immense heat, pressure, or hot fluids without melting
What are metamorphic rocks?
In Jamaica people mainly settle on
What are flat lands?
Two harmful effects of mining?
What is air pollution, water pollution, deforestation etc.
The main activity of Ocho Rios?
What is tourism?
When rocks are broken down into smaller particles they become _____
What is soil?
Formed by volcanic eruption
What are igneous rocks?
What type of landscape usually mining and forestry as an economic activity?
What is mountainous?
This farming practice results in air pollution and removal of nutrients from the soil
What is slash and burn?
The main activity of Port Royal
What is fishing?
The arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area
What is topography?
True or False: Jamaica was formed by a volcanic eruption millions of years ago
TRUE
Why do people prefer to settle on flat lands?
What is for transportation and infrastructure development?
Removing this can cause flooding of costal areas because it can withstand harsh conditions
What are mangroves?
The bread basket of Jamaica
What is St. Elizabeth?
This is a type of terrain formed by the dissolution of soluble bedrock, like limestone, by water
Karst Landscape
This sedimentary rock is mined in Eastern St. Andrew
What is gypsum?
What is the major difference between mining and quarrying?
What is mining extras minerals and quarrying extracts rocks?
Am example of of a beach in Portmore that has been severely eroded due to human activity
What is Hellshire Beach?
Forested areas of Jamaica
What is the Blue & Johncrow Mountain or the Cockpit Country