Geography Gr7 - Unit B Vocabulary

A large natural reservoir that is underground

• Arable land

• Aquifer

• Climate

• Resources

Answer explanation

The amount of water stored in an aquifer can vary from season to season. Depending on its permeability, aquifers can gain water at a rate of 50 feet per year to 50 inches per century.

The concept that people’s decisions, choices, and actions can have a positive impact, supporting a healthy environment that is essential for all life. A healthy environment supports sustainable relationships among all of Earth’s living and non-living things.

• Extraction of resources

• Ecotourism

• Stewardship

• Climate

Changes in long-term weather patterns that are caused by natural phenomena or human activity altering the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

• Habitat

• Sustainability

• Boreal forest

• Climate Change

Answer explanation

These may include changes in temperature, precipitation, and/or wind patterns and may result in global warming and an increase in severe weather occurrences.

Living within the limits of available resources. These resources may include Earth’s natural resources and/or the economic and human resources of a society.

• Habitat

• Sustainability

• Boreal forest

• Climate Change

Answer explanation

Sustainability also implies equitable distribution of resources and benefits, which requires an understanding of the interrelationships between natural environments, societies, and economies.

The place where an organism lives and that provides it with the food, water, shelter, and space it needs to survive.

• Habitat

• Sustainability

• Boreal forest

• Climate Change

The action of taking out something, especially using effort or force.

• Extraction of resources

• Ecotourism

• Stewardship

• Climate

Answer explanation

(i.e., removing natural resources)

Travel to fragile or pristine areas, often seen as low impact and as an alternative to standard commercial travel.

• Extraction of resources

• Ecotourism

• Stewardship

• Climate

Answer explanation

Much of ecotourism is about building awareness, by spreading the word and teaching fellow travellers how to respect natural environments.

A natural substance that is not replenished with the speed at which it is consumed.

• Renewable resource

• Non-renewable resource

• Flow resource

• Natural resource

Answer explanation

There are four major types of nonrenewable resources: oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear energy. Oil, natural gas, and coal are collectively called fossil fuels

A resource that can be regenerated if used carefully (e.g., fish, timber)

• Renewable resource

• Non-renewable resource

• Flow resource

• Natural resource

Answer explanation

The sun is not a renewable resource but, it does provide renewable energy.

A resource which is neither renewable nor non-renewable, and must be used where it occurs and replenishes itself.

• Renewable resource

• Non-renewable resource

• Flow resource

• Natural resource

Answer explanation

Flow resources can only be natural resources. Examples of flow resources include solar radiation, running water, tides, geothermal, landfill gas, biomass, and winds.