Social Enviroment
A group of people living together with shared norms and values.
What is a community?
Long-term temperature and weather patterns in a region.
What is climate?
Government-created rules that citizens must follow.
What are laws?
The system of producing, buying, and selling goods.
What is the economy?
The process by which friends and peers influence behavior.
What is peer pressure?
These gases trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere and cause warming.
What are greenhouse gases?
A system of government where people vote for their leaders.
What is a democracy?
Oil, timber, and minerals are examples of these production resources.
What are natural resources?
The average age, gender, and other characteristics of people in a population describe this.
What is demographics?
Their melting leads to rising sea levels—found in Greenland and Antarctica.
What are glaciers/ice sheets?
The process of making public decisions, often influenced by stability.
What is policymaking?
A long-lasting decline in economic activity.
What is a recession?
Shared ideas of right and wrong shaped by social environments.
What are morals/values?
This gas, released from burning fossil fuels, is the biggest contributor to climate change.
What is a drought?
Environmental rules often aim to limit this harmful activity.
What is pollution?
Industries like farming, mining, and fishing belong to this part of the economy.
What is the primary sector?
When individuals adjust their behavior to match the group, even if they disagree, this social effect is happening.
What is conformity?
The gradual increase in Earth’s average temperature caused mainly by human activities is called this.
What is global warming?
Agreements like the Paris Agreement, made between countries.
What are international treaties?
When demand rises and supply falls, this happens to prices.
What is inflation?