Ancient Civilizations
The scientific study of the Earth’s surface, physical features, divisions, products, population, etc.
What is Geography?
Relating to a city or town.
What is Urban?
When there is very little of something available.
What is scarcity?
The ability to maintain or preserve resources over the long term.
What is sustainability?
Things that can be bought or sold
What are goods?
Where power is shared amongst lots of people, like in the United States and Britain.
What is Democracy?
Traditional Shanghainese stone-gate houses.
What are ShiKuMen?
The process of removing salt from seawater to make it drinkable.
What is Desalination?
A place where travelers can stay, such as a hotel or hostel.
What is accommodation?
Money used to purchase resources for goods and services
What is Capital?
The governing body of Rome, which was comprised of 300 members from the upper-class Patricians. They interpreted the laws and were the most powerful.
What is the Senate?
Something that you cannot touch or feel.
What is intangible?
When gas turns back into liquid water.
What is Condensation?
The variety of plant and animal life in a particular habitat.
What is biodiversity?
Single control over a market
What is a monopoly?
The people who represented the Plebians in the government. They had “veto” power.
Who were the Tribunes?
When old neighborhoods are fixed up, they become more expensive to live in.
What is gentrification?
The presence of harmful or unwanted substances in something.
What is contamination?
A planned route or schedule of travel.
What is an itinerary?
Specific group aimed at by marketing
What is a target audience?
A wealthy, land-holding upper-class group of powerful Romans who made up the Roman Senate.
Who were the Patricians?
An area of land that is given or rented out, often for special use.
Concession (French) (租界)
This is the process where plants release water vapor into the air through tiny openings in their leaves.
What is transpiration?
The total amount of greenhouse gases produced by human activities.
What is carbon footprint?
Money earned by a business.
What is revenue?