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regions
resources
People and the Land
Vocabulary
odds and ends
100
an area that has one or more features in common.
What is region?
100
renewable, nonrenewable, and flow resources
What are natural resources?
100
the surroundings in which people, plants and animals live
What is environment?
100
the process by which water and wind wear away the land
What is erosion?
100
not having as much of something as people would like
What is scarcity?
200
four geographic regions of the United States
What is Northeast, South, Midwest and West?
200
Natural resources that can be replaced.
What are renewable resources?
200
both affect the land
What are natural forces and human activity?
200
contamination of the environment by human activities
What is pollution?
200
the protection and wise use of resources
What is conservation?
300
plateau, mountain, canyon
What are landforms?
300
Oil
What is a nonrenewable resources?
300
the buying and selling of goods by people and businesses in different regions
What is trade?
300
a community of plants and animals with the surrounding soil, air and water
What is an ecosystem?
300
wind, sunlight and water
What are flow resources?
400
Regions share these
What are physical or human features?
400
a tool, machine, or building people use to produce goods and services
What are capital resources?
400
a person who buys goods and services
What is a consumer?
400
a map that shows states and capitals
What is a political map?
400
wood and fisheries
What are renewable resources?
500
When people in a region make the goods they are best able to produce with the resources they have.
What is specialization?
500
a person and the skills and knowledge he or she brings to the job
What are human resources?
500
Resources are important to a region's _____________.
What is economy?
500
the thing you give up when you decide to do or have something else
What is opportunity cost?
500
A main resource in Henderson County that we are known for in the fall.
What are apples?