People and the Environment
Why are some resources called nonrenewable? Renewable?
Nonrenewable take millions of years to form
Renewable resources regenerate relatively quickly
Useful material found in the environemnt:
Natural Resource
The state of being unwanted or undesirable could be described as:
Negative
What are the beliefs, customs, practices, and behaviors of a particular nation or group of people referred to as?
Culture
What is culture?
The beliefs, customs, and practices of a group of people.
One cause for the rapid population growth since the Industrial Revolution is:
Better medical care
Non-renewable resource that is formed over millions of years from the remains of dead plants and animals. (Coal, natural gas, petroleum)
Fossil Fuels
What is a group of people living in similar economic conditions called?
A social class
A group of humans with a shared culture who have organized themselves to meet their basic needs is a
Society
What is a cultural region?
An area where a single culture or cultural feature is most common.
Which of these causes of migration is an example of a pull factor?
a. An earthquake| b. Job availibility| c. Poverty| d. Warfare|
B. Job availibility.
The development of machine-powered production and manufacturing
Industrialization
What are the reasons that cause or force people to leave their home country? What are the reasons that attract people to a new location?
Push Factors push people away
Pull Factors
What is a pattern of organized relationships among groups of people within a society called?
Social Structure
What 6 items help make up different features of culture?
Language, laws, religion, values, foods, clothing.
Urbanization is:
The movement of people from rural areas to urban ones, the growth of cities.
The loss of forest cover in a region:
Deforestation
To bring different people or groups together would be to ________ them
Unify
The level of comfort enjoyed by a person or a society is known as the...
Standard of living
What is cultural diffusion? What occurs when 2 or more cultures interact...
The spread of traits from one culture to the next.
What problems can come from urbanization?
Strain on resources and services, lack of jobs
The number of types of living things in a region or ecosystem
Biodiversity
What does it mean to emigrate?
To migrate (move) OUT of a place
How can religion help shape a culture?
It structures/creates: beliefs and values, answer questions about life, and guide people in ethics (standard of acceptable behavior)