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On this day there is no sunlight at the North Pole
What is the winter Solstice?
100
Family and kin constituted the most enduring and esteemed institutions in the country's social fabric. Both Indian and Hispanic traditions emphasized the family; indeed, few alternative institutions competed for an individual's loyalty. The family buffered Indians from the vagaries of a hostile world. For the landed gentry, a distinguished family name played a major role in the assignment of status. An old person in this society is probably (respected for their wisdom) (taken out in the country and left because they can't work) (put into an old folks home to be taken care of by strangers)
What is (respected for their wisdom)?
100
Cutting down forests to create farmland, paving roads, and building subdivisions on former pastureland are examples of THIS.
What is human modification of the environment?
100
Physical materials from nature that people need and value.
What are natural resources?
100
The production of goods in mass quantities in a market economy.
What is Commercial Industry?
200
Interaction between this sphere and the hydrosphere produces erosion.
What is the lithosphere?
200
According to this chart, countries with a low GNI per capita have THIS in common.
What is a high percentage of people working in agriculture?
200
An unintended consequence of THIS is loss of soil fertility, since the river no longer deposits new soils and nutrients on the alluvial plains.
What is damming a river?
200
A part of the Earth's surface that is similar or connected in some way. Geographers organize the Earth's surface this way to make it easier to study.
What are Regions?
200
Dixie, the Middle East, and the 'Hood are examples of this type of Region.
What is a Perceptual Region?
300
This is why Texans go on vacation in the mountains during the heat of the summer.
What is "because its cooler at higher elevations"?
300
This region of the United States is so densely populated it has its own name.
What is Megalopolis?
300
THIS is is a reaction of the market economy to a drought in the wheat growing areas.
What is a rise in the price of wheat?
300
THIS is measured by personal incomes, education levels, food consumption, life expectancy, and other factors relating to quality of life.
What is Standard of Living?
300
This storm is an interaction between what 2 spheres?
What are the Atmosphere and the Hydrosphere?
400
This is why it is hotter in the summer and colder in the winter in Lincoln, Nebraska than it is in Dover, Delaware.
What is continentality?
400
These population pyramids indicate that THIS is happening to the population in Japan.
What is shrinking?
400
People choose to live near volcanoes because of this.
What is fertile soil?
400
Fish, timber, corn, and cows are examples of these.
What are Renewable Resources?
400
This is the product of erosion of rocks and the decomposition of vegetation.
What is soil?
500
These geologic forces are constantly reshaping this region.
What are tectonic forces?
500
According to this chart, the world's population began to grow rapidly in THIS century.
What is the 1800s?
500
These tropical storms threaten US coastal cities.
What are hurricanes?
500
The condition of not having all the products, good, or services one wants, because there is not enough of the resource to go around.
What is scarcity?
500
Cells phones, railroads, and airplanes are examples of these.
What are Technological Innovations?