Social Studies Unit 1, Chapters 1-4

Which of the following is true?

• Geography helps us understand the past

• Geography helps us understand the United States

• Geography helps us understand what a place is like

• All of the above

A plateau is

• a high, steep-sided area rising above the land

• the line between two countries

• a wide, flat plain that slopes to the center of the continent

• a wide, flat plain that slopes to the center of the continent

Climate is affected by

• how people dress for the weather

• what kind of houses people build

• landforms and distance form the equator

• the language and food of people who live in an area

Which of the following is a natural resource?

• a house built from wood

• a table made of wood

• water

• paper made from ground up wood

Which of the following is a renewable resource?

• wind

• natural gas

• trees

• iron ore

What is needed to turn natural resources into things we use?

• conservation

• capital resources and human resources

• scarcity

• opportunity cost

Conservation means

• using natural resources until they run out

• never using any natural resources

• using only renewable resources

• using our natural resources wisely

If many people want a product but there aren't enough for all of them, it is called

• scarcity

• conservation

• opportunity cost

• nonrenewable resources

Regions of a country can be grouped together

• by location, climate, activities, culture, or resources

• in only one way

• by how many cars there are

• only by the people who live there

The Dairy Belt region is

• in the South

• in the Northwest

• in the Midwest and Northeast

• in the Midwest only