Regions
An area with certain characteristics that set it apart from surrounding areas.
What is a region?
A tool, machine, or building people use to produce goods and services.
The study of the world and its features.
What is geography?
The process by which water and wind wear away the land.
What is erosion?
A resource that can be replenished naturally.
What is a renewable resource?
The system people use to produce goods and services.
What is the economy?
A person and the skills and knowledge he/she brings to the job.
What is a human resource?
A physical feature of the earth's surface, such as a mountain.
What is a landform?
The things that surround someone, including water and land.
What is the environment?
A resource that cannot be replenished naturally.
What is a non-renewable resource?
The result of people making the goods they are best able to produce with the resources they have.
What is specialization?
A lack of something.
What is scarcity?
A high, steep-sided area that rises above the nearby land.
What is a plateau?
Harmful materials that damage or contaminate air, water, or soil.
What is pollution?
A resource that can only be used at a certain time or place.
What is a flow resource?
A person who spends money on goods and services.
What is a consumer?
The most important thing that people give up so they can have or do something else.
What is opportunity cost?
The type of weather in a place over a long period of time.
What is climate?
A community of animals and plants interacting with their environment.
What is ecosystem?
Buying and selling goods.
What is trade?
The protection and careful use of natural resources.
What is conservation?
The imaginary line dividing the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?