Lessons 33 & 34
One of seven large land masses on the globe that is generally surrounded by large bodies of water.
What is a continent?
The wearing away of the land by forces such as water, wind, and ice.
What is erosion?
Rain, snow or hail mixed with air pollutants, typically smog.
What is acid rain?
The land, soil, plants, and animals needed to grow crops and raise livestock.
What are agricultural resources?
The belief in a power, God, or gods.
What is religion?
A man-made waterway which allows for the passage of boats or ships.
What is a canal?
A specific geographic region where a community of people live; such as mountains, lowlands, or coasts.
What is a settlement?
A type of air pollutant caused by the combination of smoke and fog.
What is smog?
A nonrenewable resource made from decomposed plants and animals; these are burned for energy.
What are fossil fuels?
The unique traditions or aspects of a culture, such as language, religion, and dress.
What are cultural features?
Naturally created or man-made features of the Earth's surface.
What are geographic features?
Houses built on elevated platforms, usually over water or land, to prevent against flooding.
What are stilt houses?
The farming of fish, crustaceans, and aquatic plants in controlled environments.
What is aquaculture?
Moved to western Europe temporarily to work on farms.
What are migrant workers?
These are areas of raised land.
What are dikes?
Land usually found at the base of a mountain with gradual incline and higher elevation.
What are foothills?
A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
The process of digging underground to retrieve valuable resources.
What is mining?
When goods and services are more expensive than their actual value.
What is inflation?
This is a story of a person, event, or thing that is unable to be proven as true.
What is a myth?
Water is a good transportation source and sustains life; mountains provide snow activities; deserts can have dry temperatures.
Why do people live where they do?
The study of Earth's surface such as continents, oceans, and mountains, often using maps.
What is physical geography?
They have influenced the development of aquaculture, led to overfishing, and created competition among European countries for fish supply.
How do the availability and distribution of fish affect different regions in Europe?
These are not controlled by their government, but based on the public's supply of and demand for goods.
What are free-market economies?
Images or objects that represent something else.
What are symbols?