Natural Resources
What type of resource can be replaced quickly, like sunlight or trees?
What is a renewable resource?
What is the natural world including land, air, and water called?
What is the environment?
What are the three main needs people look for when settling?
What is food, water, and shelter?
What is cutting down forests called?
What is deforestation?
What natural force can cause erosion?
What is wind or water?
What type of resource takes millions of years to form, like oil or coal?
What is a nonrenewable resource?
What is it called when humans change how they live to survive in their environment?
What is adaptation?
What type of settlement forms in a line along rivers or roads?
What is a linear settlement?
What is building cities and roads over natural land called?
What is urbanization?
What happens when trees are removed from steep land?
What is increased risk of mudslides?
What do we call materials from Earth like water, timber, and minerals?
What are natural resources?
Designing houses on stilts in a flood zone is an example of what?
What is adaptation?
Why do people often settle near rivers?
What is access to water, transportation, and fertile soil?
What happens when people build on floodplains?
What is increased flood risk?
Why are wetlands important?
Whaat is they absorb excess water and reduced flooding?
Name one way ecosystems provide resources to humans?
What is providing water, wood, food, or energy?
What term means using resources while protecting them for the future?
What is sustainability?
What jobs are common in coastal areas?
What is fishing or shipping?
What is one effect of migration on the environment?
What is resource strain, urban sprawl, or habitat loss?
Give one example of technology that helps manage natural disasters.
What are dams, levees, or warning systems?
What is one way humans modify the environment to use resources?
What is farming, building cities, or irrigation?
Name one way nature shapes how people live?
What is climate, landforms, or access to water influencing settlement?
What is it determines jobs based on environment (farming, fishing, mining)?
How can human actions worsen natural processes?
What is by removing trees, draining wetlands, or pollution?
What happens when human decisions combine with natural forces?
What is a natural disaster can become worse?