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Land and Climate
Our Nation's Resources
Regions of the United States
People and the Land
Random-Lessons 1-4
100
The study of the world and the people and things that live there.
What is geography?
100
Wood and fisheries are examples.
What is a renewable resource?
100
The United States is divided into Northeast, South, Midwest and West.
What is regions?
100
The things that surround someone, including water and land.
What is environment?
100
This increases trade between regions.
What is specialization?
200
A high, steep-sided area rising aboe the surrounding land.
What is a Plateau?
200
Resources that cannot be replaced once they are used up.
What is nonrewable resources?
200
By location, landforms, climate, economic activities, customs, and language.
What is the ways regions are divided?
200
The Grand Canyon is an example of this.
What is erosion?
200
This person buys goods and services.
What is a consumer?
300
A Eastern mountain range that has sharp, rocky peaks. The continental divide runs along these peaks.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
300
Wind and water are examples of this type of resource.
What is flow resources?
300
System people use to produce goods and services.
What is economy?
300
Building highways; mining; using chemicals; introducing new life forms into ecosystems.
What is human activities that change the land?
300
These two things helped the growth of Denver.
What is gold and silver?
400
The time of weather a place has over a long period of time. It includes tempertature and the amount of precipitation a place gets.
What is climate?
400
They are the tools, machines, and buildings that turn the natural resources into someting people want.
What is capital resources?
400
Happens when people make the goods they are best able to produce with the resouces they have.
What is specialization?
400
Anything that makes the soil, air, or water dirty and unhealthy.
What is pollution?
400
Recycling paper, cans, bottles; not wasting water, gas, electricity; riding bikes instead of driving cars.
What is conserving resources?
500
This causes the southern half of the country to have a warmer climate and the northern half of the country to have a colder climate.
What is equator?
500
They must choose between different goods and services based on need or desire for each item and the amount of money they have to spend.
What is scarcity?
500
United States buys oil from Mexico.
What is trade?
500
A community of animals and plants interacting with their environment.
What is ecosystem?
500
This exists when people cannot get everything they would like.
What is scarcity?