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Food and Oil Consumption Patterns
Computer and Internet Use Patterns
The World's Greatest Producers and Beginning to Think Globally
100
The using up of goods and services by consumers.
What is consumption?
100
A measure of the amount of energy in food
What are calories?
100
This is the main cause of hunger in the world
What is poverty?
100
Developed and developing countries differ in their access to this type of good/service
What is technology?
100
Americans have this belief in the moral value, or goodness, of hard work
What is strong work ethic?
200
By or for each person. It is calculated by dividing the total amount of something by the number of people in a place.
What is per capita?
200
A poorer country with a less advanced economy
What is developing country?
200
The average person in many developed countries consumed about 3,300 of these a day, more than enough to meet their nutritional needs.
What are calories?
200
Most people in poor countries are limited to this type of technology
What is cheap and simple technology?
200
This class of consumers earn at least $7,000 a year
What is global consumer class?
300
A wealthy country with an advanced economy.
What is developed country?
300
The gap between people with access to computers and the Internet and those without
What is digital divide?
300
This country leads the world in oil consumption
What is United States?
300
The majority of U.S. households own one of these
What is computer?
300
Saving natural resources, reducing municipal waste, and keeping toxic materials out of dumps is an immediate benefit of this
What is recycling?
400
Any fuel, such as petroleum, coal, and natural gas, that is made from the remains of prehistoric plants and animals
What is fossil fuel?
400
The total value of goods and services produced in a country in a year
What is gross domestic product (GDP)?
400
This is used to make plastics, nylon, and other products
What is oil?
400
Most poor countries are working to reduce this gap between people with access to computers and to those without
What is digital divide?
400
This problems creates more air pollution, trash, and shortage of food, water, and fuel
What is increased consumption?
500
This process turns used goods into materials that can be used to make new ones.
What is recycling?
500
The creation and use of tools to meet practical needs
What is technology?
500
The developed world produces more of this good than it can consume
What is food?
500
Computers and the Internet were developed in this country
What is United States?
500
Cutting back on waste, finding ways to do more with less, and using cleaner resources are ways to do this
What is living well while consuming less (protecting the planet)?
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