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Section 1 Vocab
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Stages of Economic Activity
Energy
100
Useful materials found in the environment.
What are natural resources?
100
Natural surroundings.
What is an environment?
100
The loss of forest cover in a region.
What is deforestation?
100
The number of stages of economic activity.
What is 3?
100
This is needed to make use of other natural resources.
What is energy?
200
Materials that can't be replaced in a practical span of time.
What are nonrenewable resources?
200
The large-scale production of goods by hand or by machine.
What is manufacturing?
200
Waste that makes the air, soil, or water less clean.
What is pollution?
200
Processing of raw materials to make them useful.
What is the 2nd stage?
200
Coal, natural gas, and petroleum.
What are fossil fuels?
300
Materials gathered from the environment that we can get more of.
What are renewable resources?
300
Movement of new settlers and their culture to a country.
What is colonization?
300
A richness of different kinds of living things.
What is biodiversity?
300
Gathering and directly using the resources.
What is the 1st stage?
300
Generally cleaner, can be used over and over to create power.
What is renewable energy?
400
Natural resources that must be worked to be useful.
What are raw materials?
400
The growth of of machine-powered production.
What is industrialization?
400
Technology for building structures that alter the landscape, such as dams, canals, roads, and bridges.
What is civil engineering?
400
Handling the finished product for people to use.
What is the 3rd stage?
400
The worlds top petroleum consumer.
What is the United States?
500
A type of renewable or clean energy.
What are wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, biomass, or atomic energy?
500
Livestock and crops unknown before colonization.
What are wheat, grapes, cows, and chickens?
500
Uses gasoline and electricity for better mileage.
What is a hybrid car?
500
The stage that delivery and sales are.
What is the 3rd level?
500
A country that produces more oil than it consumes.
What are Saudi Arabia, Russia, Norway, Mexico, and Iran?