Ch. 24
This resource is nonrenewable because it takes millions of years to form.
What is oil?
Oil that is pumped out of the ground is in the form of what?
What is crude oil?
Monsoons are this.
What are seasonal winds?
This is the weight of air pushing down on Earth.
What is atmospheric pressure?
What is average temperature and precipitation?
Wind, sunlight, or geothermal energy are all considered this type of resource.
What is a renewable resource?
Oil is created by underground heat and pressure that slowly turns the remains of these.
What are plants and animals?
Drip irrigation is one way people of this city have adapted their semiarid climate.
What is Jodhpur?
This city has attempted to increase rainfall by cloud seeding.
What is Pune, India?
The line on a climograph represents this.
What is the average temperature?
The US became involved in the Persian War because of this.
What is to ensure it could import oil?
Most of the world's energy continues to be generated by this.
What are nonrenewable resources?
This explains why cities on opposite sides of a mountain receive different amounts of rain.
What is the orographic effect?
This Asian city is known as one of the world's wettest capitals.
What is Dhaka?
The bars on a climograph represent this.
What is average precipitation?
What major organization was created to help keep oil prices steady?
What is OPEC?
Southwest Asian countries that spend much of its oil earnings on education and health care is most like to have this.
What is a high HDI ranking?
Pune, India lies in a rain shadow. People of this city have learned to live with what as a result of its location.
What are frequent droughts?
Jodhpur, India has this type of climate.
What is semiarid?
This type of graph can be used to climates of different cities.
What is a climograph?
What is the Persian Gulf War?
What is Saudi Arabia?
People that live on this side of a mountain receive very little rainfall.
What is downwind?
Jodhpur, India has this nickname because houses there are painted this color to keep mosquitoes or termites away.
What is "Blue City"?
This Kinawa teacher is the best 6th grade teacher ever!
Who is Mrs. Gunns?