Natural Resources
Energy Sources
Economic Activities
Global Trade Patterns
Level of Development
100
materials in the natural environment that people value and use to satisfy their needs
What is natural resources?
100
what modern industrial countries use this to light cities, power cars and aiplanes, and run computers and other machines
What is energy?
100
economic activities that rely directly upon natural resources
What is primary economic activities?
100
goods sent out of a country
What is exports?
100
France, USA, and Japan are at this level of development (1st 2nd or 3rd)
What is a 1st world country
200
natural resources that are constantly being regenerated or replaced by the envrionemnt
What is renewable resources?
200
an energy source produced by fission
What is nuclear energy?
200
economic activity also known as subsistence farming
What is a primary economic activity?
200
goods brought into a country
What is imports?
200
GDP
What is gross domestic product?
300
natural resources that cannot be replaced once they have been used
What is nonrenewable resources?
300
most ancient source of energy
What is water power?
300
truck driver, police officer, and firefighter work in this activity
What is tertiary activities?
300
governments seek a favorable ______ between imports and exports
What is a balance?
300
enjoy a higher standard of living (1st, 2nd, or 3rd world)
What is a developed country or 1st world country?
400
the most important nonrenewable mineral resources such as coal, oil, and natural gas
What is fossil fuels?
400
energy that comes from earth's internal heat
What is geothermal energy?
400
commercial industries and cottage industries make up this activity
What is secondary activities?
400
determined by geography, transportation technology, and international relations - today modern techonolgy is changing the nature of these
What is trade routes?
400
nations showing evidence of political, economic, and social progress are called ____________ countries
What is developing or 2nd world?
500
Advanced technologies may help us find new mineral deposits in the future - but what can we do right now to increase nonrenwable resource supplies?
What is recycling?
500
greatest renewable energy source
What is solar energy?
500
acquisition, processing, and sharing of information and includes jobs such as education, government, information processing, and research
What is quaternary activities?
500
deveopments in communication and computer science make this type of trading possible
What is electronic trading?
500
influences a country's level of development
What is economic activities and trade patterns?
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