Natural Resources
Land Use
People Effect Environment
Energy
Resources
100
Any useful material found in the environment.
What is a natural resource?
100
How people use the land depends on this.
What is their culture?
100
The loss of forest cover in a region.
What is deforestation? Bonus for 100: What is a major cause of deforestation?
100
Dams produce hydroelectric power by harnessing the power of this.
What is falling water?
100
A leather jacket is an example of this type of resource?
What is animal? Bonus for 100: Is is renewable or nonrenewable?
200
When these materials are used up, they cannot be replaced.
What are non-renewable resources?
200
The stage where people interact directly with the land or the sea.
What are first-level activities? Bonus for 100- What type of countries use a high percentage of first level activities?
200
A richness of different kinds of living things.
What is biodiversity? Bonus for 100: What are 2 solutions that will help people find ways of meeting our need for food and resources without harming the environment?
200
Energy from the heat of Earth's interior.
What is geothermal energy?
200
A milk jug is an example of this type of resource?
What are fossil fuels?
300
Natural resources that must be worked to be useful.
What are raw materials? Bonus question for 100 points: Give 3 examples of raw materials.
300
The large-scale production of goods by hand or by machine.
What is manufacturing?
300
Technology for building structures that alter the landscape, such as dams, canals, roads and bridges.
What is civil engineering?
300
DAILY DOUBLE: This energy uses radioactive materials, which are nonrenewable, but plentiful.
What is atomic energy?
300
Aluminum is an example of this type of resource.
What are rocks and minerals? Bonus for 100: What is unique about aluminum?
400
Solar energy is considered this type of resource.
What is a renewable resource?
400
When a region undergoes this, newcomers may change the regions's landscape to fit their cultural practices.
What is colonization?
400
These provide most of the jobs and are the basis of developed countries' prosperity.
What are second and third level activities or what are industrial and service activities?
400
This resource is needed to make use of other natural resources.
What is energy? Bonus for 100: Name 2 sources of energy.
400
Toilet Paper is an example of this type of resource.
What is plants? Bonus for 100: What plant is toilet paper made out of?
500
This is created over millions of years from the remains of prehistoric living things.
What are fossil fuels? Bonus for 100: Give 3 examples of fossil fuels.
500
The growth of this has changed the landscapes of many countries.
What is industrialization? Bonus for 100: The spread of cities and suburbs is known as what?
500
This helps reduce the waste that must be burned, saves natural resources, and reduces the amount of waste that gets dumped.
What is recycling?
500
Countries with many rivers can use energy to create this.
What is electricity?
500
These resources can be considered both renewable and nonrenewable.
What are fossil fuel? Bonus for 100: Why?
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