6th Grade World Geography Unit 5: HEI – Flashcards
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Cultural Adaptation
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Patterns of behavior that enable a culture to cope with its surroundings or when an individual modifies his/her customs to fit in to a particular culture.
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Cultural Landscape
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The visible features of an area of land as modified by humans showing the imprint of a cultural group.
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Human-Environment Interaction
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The geographic theme that explores how people use, adapt to, and modify the environment.
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What is one of the five themes of geography?
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Human-environment interaction is one of the five themes of geography.
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True or False ; Under the theme of human-environment interaction, doctors investigate how people use, adapt to, and modify the environment.
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False; Geographers investigate
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What takes place at all spatial scales from the local to the global.
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Human-Environment Interaction
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Global problems such as ____________,___________,____________, and resource depletion can be investigated through the geographic theme of human-environment interaction.
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Climate Change, Deforestation, Pollution,
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Natural resources
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Any physical environmental item that people perceive to be useful.
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renewable natural resources
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natural resources that Earth or people can replace
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non-renewable natural resources
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Natural resources that cannot be replaced in a relatively short period of time.
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fossil fuels
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a natural source that stores potential energy and that is formed from the remains of once living organisms
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mineral resources
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natural resources found on and in the Earth's crust that include metals, nonmetals, and fuels
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per capita
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by each person equally
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
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the total market value of all final goods and services produced within a country during a period of time.
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Humans depend on the ______ through the use of natural resources.
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Earth
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Natural resources are useful materials found where on the earth?
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Natural resources are useful materials found on and under the earth's surface.
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True or false; Natural resources are evenly distributed across the earth. Some countries like the United States have a low number of natural resources and other countries also have a low number.
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False; Natural resources are unevenly distributed across the earth. Some countries like the United States have a great number of natural resources and other countries have few.
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The pace of resource use and extraction has been increasing or decreasing since the Industrial Revolution in the 1800's?
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Increasing
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extraction
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the removal of natural resources from the environment
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Consumption
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the use of natural resources or products
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life cycle of a product
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the stages a product goes through from extraction of resources to disposal
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Using natural resources can have many good or bad effects on the environment?
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Bad effects
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True or false?;The extraction and utilization of one natural resource often occurs at the expense of another natural resource.
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True
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Does it takes only one natural resource to make most products?
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No it takes multiple.
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True or False?; The earth and its resources are affected throughout the life cycle of humans?
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False; its affected by the life cycle of products.
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Resource consumption is even or uneven on Earth? Twenty percent of the population of Earth uses or doesn't use eighty percent of the resources?
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1)uneven 2) uses
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energy
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usable power that comes from heat, electricity, motion, etc.
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nuclear energy
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power created by splitting atoms apart of combining atoms together
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uranium
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a fuel used to create nuclear energy
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biomass
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renewable energy from plants and animals
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geothermal energy
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heat from within the Earth
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hydropower
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energy created using water
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greenhouses gases
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chemical compounds found in the Earth's atmosphere
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True or False?; Energy is usable power that comes from heat, electricity, motion, etc.
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True
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Change the word Energy creation and utilization is a -bad- part of life on Earth.
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vital
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Is this correct? Energy can be created from -neither- non-renewable and renewable natural resources.
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No; energy can be created from both non-renewable and renewable natural resources.
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True or False?; Non-renewable sources of energy are those that we use up and can recreate. They include oil, natural gas, and coal.
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True
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Fix it nonrenewable sources of energy are those that can be easily replaced such as biomass, solar power, and wind power.
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Renewable sources
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Do all sources of energy have both advantages and disadvantages?
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Yes all do.
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True or false?; A major advantage of using fossil fuels to create energy in that they emit greenhouse gases which contribute to climate change.
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False its a disadvantage
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green product
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a good that either has qualities that will protect the environment or has used natural ingredients instead of artificial ingredients
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Can technology can both help and harm the environment?
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Yes it can.
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True or False?; Advances in technology have led to large scale modifications of the environment such as mountaintop removal.
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True
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True or False?; Advances in technology have also led to solutions to environmental problems such as using the sun and wind to generate electricity.
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True
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conflict
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a disagreement, struggle or clash for power, property, resources, etc.
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prevalence
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being widespread or common
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refugee
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someone who has been forced to leave a country because of war or religious or political reasons
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historical perspective
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a point of view that considers accounts of past events, the circumstances surrounding those events at the time, and their causes and consequences
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economic perspective
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a point of view that considers how scarcity influences the choices people and societies make in the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services
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political perspective
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a point of view that considers power, authority, rules and laws, government and citizenship
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geographic perspective
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a point of view that considers the earth and how humans interact with it
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sociological perspective
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a point of view that considers human societies and how humans organize in groups
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degradation
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to decline to a lower condition, quality or level
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treaty
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a signed agreement between two or more countries
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Environmental factors are often _________ connected to conflict.
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Directly
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Scarce natural resources like ______, ________ or ____________ are often the causes of conflict.
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Water, minerals, and fertile land.
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True or False?; Conflicts are often caused by a variety of factors including economic, political, social/cultural, historical and geographic reasons.
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True
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Using a _________of social science perspectives can help us better understand and resolve conflict.
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Variety
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Some natural resources are vital to the military. Political factors may result in ______________becoming targets during conflict.
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Natural resources
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The __________ can also be the victim of a conflict and incur damage and degradation.
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Environment