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38 Cards in this Set
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What is the movement of customs and ideas?
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Cultural diffusion
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What is the technology for building structures that alter (change) the landscape, like dams, roads, and bridges called?
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Civil engineering
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What are useful materials found in the environment called?
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Natural resources
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What is waste, usually man-made, that makes the air, water, or soil less clean?
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Pollution
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What is a richness of different kinds of living things in a region called?
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Biodiversity
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What are natural resources that must be worked on to be useful called?
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Raw materials
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What is a loss of forest cover in a region called?
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Deforestation
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What are natural resources that CANNOT be replaced called?
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Non-renewable resources
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What are Natural resources that CAN be replaced called?
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Renewable resources
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What's another word for your natural surroundings?
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Environment
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What is the large-scale production of good by hand or by machine called?
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Manufacturing
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What do you call at the people that live in your house?
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Nuclear family
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What is your way of life called, including customs, language, literature, religion, food, etc.?
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Culture
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What do we call all your relatives?
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Extended family
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Can culture change?
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Yes
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What are the 4 factors that change a culture?
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Technology, natural environment, and new ideas
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What is a problem with changing culture?
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Traditions disappear
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What are the 3 main religions of the world?
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Christianity, Muslim, Judaism
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Name 3 parts of your culture.
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Sports, food, dress, language, literature, religion, traditions, hobbies, family
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Name everyone in your nuclear family.
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name everyone who lives in the same house with
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What are the 3 fossil fuels?
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Coal, natural gas, petroleum
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Which fossil fuel does the USA have the most?
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Coal
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Name 3 non-renewable resources other than the fossil fuels.
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Copper, lead ,nickel, gold, silver, tungsten, uranium, bauxite, phosphate
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What is meant by a 1st level economic activity?
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Direct touching a raw material
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Give an example of a 1st level economic activity.
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Growing crops, farming, cutting down trees, mining coal
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What is meant by a 2nd level economic activity?
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Making something out of the raw materials usually at a factory
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Give an example of a 2nd level economic activity.
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Cornflake factory, paper factory, turning petroleum into gasoline
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What is meant by a 3rd level economic activity?
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A service to people
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Give an example of a 3rd level economic activity.
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Delivery trucks, Tops, Wal-Mart, gas station, etc.
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Deforestation might be a result of 1st, 2nd, 3rd level economic activities?
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1st
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Pollution might be a result of 1st, 2nd, 3rd level economic activities?
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2nd or 3rd
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Name 3 renewable resources.
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Trees, soil, wind, sun, animals, water, plants
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What fuel is made from sugar cane?
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Ethanol
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What is the car in South America called that runs on ethanol?
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A flex car
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Biogas digesters can turn POP into what gas?
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Methane
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Biogas digesters can make __________ for homes and schools.
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Electricity
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What devices are used to create wind energy?
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Turbines
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What is energy from the sun called?
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Solar energy
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