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Vocabulary
Peninsulas
Economics
Key Ideas
Brain Busters
100
An area with common features that set it apart from other areas.
What is a region?
100
This region's land is low and flat.
What is the Lower Peninsula?
100
Things that we would like to have.
What are wants?
100
Give two examples of capital equipment.
What are tools and machines?
100
Michigan's two peninsulas nearly touch at this point.
What is St. Ignace?
200
The business of growing crops and raising animals.
What is agriculture?
200
This area is famous for copper.
What is the Keweenaw Peninsula?
200
The way a country produces, distributes, and uses its goods and services.
What is an economy?
200
Define tourist and population.
What is a person who travels for enjoyment? What is the number of people living in a place?
200
Many cities of the Lower Peninsula grew because of living near a river. Why did living here help increase the population?
What is logging and fishing?
300
The activities that people do to enjoy themselves. Give two examples.
What is recreation? What are hiking and camping?
300
This region has rugged land.
What is the Upper Peninsula?
300
People not having enough resources to satisfy all of their wants.
What is scarcity?
300
Explain the difference between nonrenewable and renewable resources. Give an example of each.
What are resources that cannot be replaced or reused? What are oil, coal, and iron? What are resources that can be replaced? What are trees and soil?
300
The Soo Locks make it easier for ships to sail from Lake Superior to Lake Huron. Explain the process of a "lock."
What is letting in more water to increase the water's height to allow the ship to sail over from Lake Superior to Lake Huron.
400
A narrow waterway that connects two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
400
This is the highest point in Michigan.
What is Mt. Arvon?
400
The next best choice that is given up when a decision is made.
What is opportunity cost?
400
Aside from its low, flat land, give three details about the Lower Peninsula.
The Lower Peninsula has a larger population, is shaped like a mitten, and produces apples and dairy products.
400
Describe two important facts about the Upper and Lower Peninsula.
The Lower Peninsula is low, flat and shaped like a mitten. The Upper Peninsula has high, rugged land, and is famous for copper.
500
The making of products with the use of machinery.
What is manufacturing?
500
This makes it easier to get from the Lower Peninsula to the Upper Peninsula.
What is the Mackinaw Bridge?
500
Explain the difference between economics and an economist.
What is the study of how the economy works versus a person who studies economics?
500
Aside from high, rugged land, give three details for the Upper Peninsula.
The Upper Peninsula has a rocky shoreline, "Pictured Rocks", and the Keweenaw Peninsula.
500
Explain how the "Pictured Rocks" were formed and what they look like.
They were formed by wind and water carving the rocks into different shapes. They look like human faces, animals, and buildings.