Name a region in North America based on landforms.
What is the name of a region?
100
What are the three basic needs of people?
What is clothing, food, and shelter?
100
When a farmer decides to plant one type of crop instead of another, the one he chose not to plant is the what?
What is Opportunity Cost?
100
Specialization leads to what?
Trade
100
Give a benefit of division of labor.
workers are quicker at their jobs, less waste, they only have to learn one job
200
Name a region in the United States.
What is the name of a region?
200
Where did the first people in the Western Hemisphere get resources to meet their basic needs?
What is their environment?
200
The consequence that happens immediately based on a decision you made.
Present consequence
200
What can people do to help the environment?
Recycle, not pollute, conserving resources
200
When a worker does only one job.
Division of Labor
300
Name a region based on landforms in the North America.
What is a region based on landform?
300
How are modern people different from the first people in the Western Hemisphere when it comes to meeting basic needs?
Modern people buy what they need. The first people were limited to what they could get from their environments.
300
What type of images would be used to see the result of a drought on a lake over time.
What are satellite images?
300
What two hemispheres is the United States located in?
Northern and Western
300
The three productive resources
Natural resources, Human resources, and Capital Goods
400
Name a region in the United States based on landform.
What is a region based on a landform?
400
What types of human activities change physical environments?
Roads, dams, construction
400
What could affect the water level drop in a lake? Animal habitats, plant life, wetlands, schools.
Animal habitats, plant life, and wetlands.
400
What climate does the United States have?
Temperate
400
Name a drawback of division of labor.
Workers can get bored, they are hard to replace if they are sick or quit
500
Name a region in the United States based on landform.
What is a region based on a landform?
500
What kind of climate does Canada have?
Polar
500
When a region uses the available productive resources to make goods and services that can be made easily and at a low cost. (For example, the fishing industry along the coast in Canada.)
What is Specialization?
500
Satellite images help individuals protect and conserve our natural resources how?
They can show the effects of pollution, overuse of resources, and other human activities.
500
What happens to productive capacity when there are ample resources?