What is the study of the world and the people and things that live there?
What is GEOGRAPHY
100
Water, oil, iron ore, and wood are all these...
What are NATURAL RESOURCES
100
An area that has one or more features in common is called a.....
What is a REGION
100
Anything that makes the air, water or soil dirty and unhealthy is called...
What is POLLUTION
100
A high, steep-sided area rising above the surrounding area...
What is a PLATEAU
200
Long, deep gaps cut into the earth?
What are CANYONS
200
Wind, sunlight and water are examples of these. They are used to help make other things that people need.
What are FLOW RESOURCES
200
One way to divide the US into regions is to group them according to __________________ (northeast, southeast, etc.) or __________________ (weather over a long period of time.)
What is LOCATION and CLIMATE
200
The surroundings in which people, plants and animals live is called the......
What is ENVIRONMENT
200
When there are not enough resources (food, water, fossil fuels) to go around, it is called...
What is SCARCITY
300
The southern states are warmer because they are closer to this...
What is EQUATOR (SUN)
300
What is the difference between a renewable and non-renewable resource?
A renewable resource can be replaced or replenished. A nonrenewable resource can run out.
300
The system people use to produce goods and services ($$$) is the _____________
What is ECONOMY.
300
A community of plants and animals along with the surrounding soil, air and water is known as...
What is ECOSYSTEM
300
The protection and wise use of natural resources, such as recycling and conserving energy is known as...
What is CONSERVATION
400
Mountains can affect the weather of a place over a long period of time. The weather over a long period of time is...
What is CLIMATE
400
List 2 other resources that are not natural resources (do not come from nature). Examples: Tools and people who work in jobs.
What are CAPITAL (tools) and HUMAN (people) resources.
400
Geogia's farmers grow a lot of cotton. Floridia's farmers grow a lot of peaches. When a regions makes a lot of one product it is called...
What is SPECIALIZATION.
400
List a landform that erosion has had an impact on...
Grand Canyon or
Mountains or
River banks or
Other acceptable answers
400
The buying and selling of goods between countries, cities, and states is known as...
What is TRADE
500
What kinds of questions do geographers ask? What do they want to know?
-Where is a place?
-What is it like?
-How does the land affect people?
-How do people affect the land?
500
Every choice that people make about how to spend their money and time involves giving up something else. This is called...
What is OPPORTUNITY COST
500
Someone who buys goods and services (when you go to the store and buy something you are one..) is a .....
What is CONSUMER
500
Human activities, such as building highways and digging mines have negative costs on the earth. List 2 possible effects that human activities have on the earth
- Digging mines leads to pollution of the land
- Building highways destroys habitats of animals
- Both cause erosion.
-Other answers
500
The process by which wind and water wear away at the land is known as...