Landforms
Resources
Economics
Climate
People and the Land
100
What is a long, deep gap cut into the Earth?
canyon
100
What is a farmer, teacher, or tutor?
human resource
100
What is it called when a region makes a lot of one product in order to make a lot of money?
specialization
100
What is one form of precipitation?
rain, snow, or sleet
100
What is the process by which wind and water wear away the land?
erosion
200
What is a high, steep-sided area that is flat on top?
plateau
200
What is wind, water, and sunlight?
flow resource
200
What someone who buys goods and services?
consumer
200
What is something that affects climate because they provide shade?
plants and trees
200
What is anything that makes the soil, water, or air dirty?
pollution
300
What is the study of the world and the people and things that live there?
geography
300
What is a computer, tractor, or toaster?
capital resource
300
What is the buying and selling of goods?
trade
300
What is the imaginary line around the middle of the Earth?
equator
300
What is a community of plants and animals along with the soil, air, and water?
ecosystem
400
What kind of map shows landforms and bodies of water?
physical map
400
What are resources that can be replaced such as trees and fish?
renewable resource
400
What is an area that has one or more features in common?
region
400
What is something that affects climate? Hint: This is because higher places are cooler.
landforms
400
What do we call the surroundings in which people, plants, and animals live?
environment
500
What landform in Arizona that was shaped by natural forces?
Grand Canyon
500
What is an example of a nonrenewable resource?
Oil, iron ore, copper, or coal.
500
What is one of the five ways that geographers divide the world into regions?
location, politcal regions, climate, activities that people do, resources produced in that region
500
What is the type of weather over a long period of time?
climate
500
What is one way that people change the land?
building things or digging mines
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