Unit 1 Science
A force that causes the earth to build up
What is a constructive force?
When scientists make a guess about the Earth's natural forces
What is prediction?
What are the two main parts of a budget?
What are income and expenditures?
The Island that Asian immigrants went to when immigrating to the US
What is Angel Island?
What is an expenditure?
What is a destructive force?
This type of technology predicts where flood zones are.
What is a G.I.S map?
This is the money you do NOT spend.
What are savings?
This island had over 15 million immigrants pass through
What is Ellis Island?
The other name for the 1900s
What is The 20th Century?
What are storm drains and levees?
This type of technology collects data on earthquakes
What is a Seismograph?
This is the account that you plan to spend money from.
What is your checking account?
This group of rag-tag wild west gentlemen avoided the big city discrimination for a life driving cattle
Who are the Black Cowboys?
What is The Chisholm Trail?
Name two pieces of technology that are used to limit the effect of shoreline erosion.
What are Jetties and Sea Walls?
This is the printed data from a seismograph
The type of expenditure that is the SAME every month
What are fixed expenses?
This man helped to bring electricity into homes and businesses.
Who is Thomas Edison?
When farmers plant crops to bring nutrients back to the soil and avoid soil erosion
What is Vegetation Replacement?
This type of technology limits soil erosion by stack walls on steep hillsides.
What is terracing?
This is what scientists use to track the weather
What is Infrared Satellite Technology?
A plan for how you will spend and save money
What is a budget?
The inventor of the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
100 years
What is a century?