A count of the amount of people living in a place, that is completed every ten years
What is census?
100
Name the number one place that Michigan trades with
What is Canada?
100
How has new technology helped farmers?
What is using tractors to help plow and carry hay? What is usiing fertilizers to help grow larger crops?
100
Give examples of what timber is used for.
What is paper, pencils, or furniture?
100
Define Recycle
What is reusing something again?
200
Explain the difference between rural and urban
What is living in the country or farming versus a town or city?
200
Give three examples of livestock
What are cows, pigs, and horses?
200
What do Americans hope to accompish by working with Canada?
What is cleaning up the Great Lakes?
200
Explain a robots job in a factory
What is doing tiring or dangerous jobs?
200
Explain the difference between import and export
Import is to buy gooods from another country and export refers to selling goods to another country.
We import petroleum (oil)
We export furniture
300
An industry that serves people is called a __________. Give two examples.
What is service industry? Who are doctors and teachers?
300
What does acid rain effect?
What are trees, lakes, and streams?
300
How has adding robots to factories effected factory workers?
Some people were replaced by robots, therefore losing their job
300
Name three types of pollution
What is air, water, and land pollution?
300
Name the three types of taxes
What is SIP? Sales tax, income tax, and property tax?
400
An industry that makes products that require much scientific knowledge
What is high-tech?
400
List two ways that people in Michigan use the forest for recreation.
What is hiking, riding bikes, or hunting?
400
Name three items that we can recycle
What are paper, plastic, and glass?
400
If someone were to visit Michigan as a tourist, what types of things could they do?
What is visting musems, swimming, visit Great Lakes, go to Mackinaw Island
400
Goods and services that are provided for the benefits of everyone and are usually the responsibility of the government
What are public goods?
500
Depending on other people for your needs and wants is called ____________
What is interdependent?
500
List two ways that unions are important
What is higher pay and better working conditions?
500
To travel to other places or go on vacation is called ______________
What is tourism?
500
What would it be like to live in an urban area? A rural area?
In urban area, you can use the sidewalk to bike ride, or go to shops in town.
In rural areas, you can help work on a farm, go horseback riding, or go on a hike.