These resources, such as water, soil, air, trees, etc. are renewed.
What are renewable resources?
100
The way of life; the most distinctive characteristic of any people. It involves religion, family structure, clothing, food, drink, occupations, arts, entertainment, etc.
What is culture?
100
This is the system of production, distribution, and consumption of good.
What is and economy?
100
The study and collection of facts about the earth and its features as well as about the activities of people on earth.
What is geography?
100
Numerical facts and figure.
What are statistics?
200
This renewable resource is derived from the heat of the earth's interior.
What is geothermal energy?
200
A system in which the government owns, or at least controls, a nation's resources and industries.
What is collectivism or socialism?
200
A systematic study of a nation's population which includes counting the people and recording various facts about them.
What is a census?
200
Approximate, educated guesses based on observations.
What are estimates?
300
This is energy produced by the sun.
What is solar energy?
300
This form of government is defined as "Rule by God."
What is Theocracy?
300
When a country and its people derive most of their income from agriculture.
What is agrarian?
300
The are of making maps.
What is cartography?
300
You use this kind of map when you want to know correct distances.
What is an equidistant map?
400
These are resources that exist in limited quantities.
What are nonrenewable resources?
400
This form of government is defined as "Rule by one."
What is Autocracy?
400
Economies that depend on the production of manufactured goods.
What is industrial economies?
400
A scale model of the earth which shows actual shapes, sizes, and locations of landmasses and bodies of water.
What is a globe?
400
This is a common map projection developed by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish cartographer and geographer. This projection is called a conformal map because the shapes conform to the shapes on a globe.
What is Mercator projection?
500
The best alternative energy source known to man, this type of energy is obtained primarily from uranium.
What is nuclear energy?
500
This form of government is defined as "Rule by the people."
What is Democracy?
500
When families and villages grow just enough food to feed themselves.
What is subsistence farming?
500
A flat representation of the earth or a portion of the earth.
What is a map?
500
This projection combines the best features of the Mollweide and Mercator projections. The lines of latitude and longitude almost intersect at right angles, except near the edges.