Our Planet, Earth
Maps
economics
People, Culture,
etc...
History Basics
100

A resource that can be replaced or regrown relatively quickly.

Renewable resource

100

The two lines that run east and west, and north and south, that help geographers find any place on earth.

Latitude and Longitude

100

If demand for a good or service goes up, how will prices react?

Price will increase

100

An area in which a set of cultural traits is dominate is...

Culture Region

100

a line marked of with a series of events and dates in chronological order

timeline

200

The three steps in the water cycle.

1. evaporation

2. condensation

3. precipitation

200

A model of earth with the same round shape as Earth itself.

A Globe

200

If supply goes up, how will prices react?

Price goes down

200

Countries want economic development because it increases which two things.

Productivity and standard of living

200

information that comes directly forma. person who experienced the event

primary source

300

Tectonic plates pushing up against each other form this physical feature of the land.

Mountains

300

This system uses satellites to pinpoint exact locations on Earth with great accuracy.

Global Positioning System (GPS)

300

Whoever buys a good or service

consumer

300

What is the building block of society?

The Family

300

The time period before writing was invented

Prehistory

400

The inner most layer of the earth's structure.

The core

400

Showing Earth on the flat surface of the map always brings a loss of accuracy in the size or position of the objects which is called ____________.

Distortion

400

The person or company which provides a good or service. 

Producer

400

culture spreading from one culture to another

cultural diffusion
400

something made by a human being such as a tool or weapon

artifact

500

The earth's tilt and it's movement around the sun causes these.

The seasons

500

All four Cardinal Directions

North South East West

500

What role does the government play in a mixed economy, 

a. No Control

b. Limited Control

c. Total Control?

Limited Control

500

What form of government enables the citizens to hold political power

democracy or representative democracy

500

The scientific study of past cultures through the examination of the artifacts and other evidence

Archaeology