Social Studies Unit 2

 Which climate is best described as dry and having hot  days and cold nights?

• desert

• temperate

• tropical

•  arctic

Which type of large body of water is made up of salt water?

• lakes

• rivers

• oceans

• streams

What are agricultural regions used for?

• drilling oil

• clearing forests

• snow skiing

• growing crops

 Which climate area usually receives the most rainfall?

• temperate

• arctic

• tropical

• desert

What is the study of earth and its people called?

• geology

• biology

• geography

• chemistry

  The earth has seven large land areas called what?

• oceans

• continents

• glaciers

• islands

 The weather over a long period of time is called what?

• climate

• weather

• environment

• adaptation

A resource that takes a long time to replace or cannot be replaced at all is what type 

     of resource?

• renewable resource

• natural resource

• non-renewable resource

• human resource

 Which of these is NOT an example of a natural resource?

• water

• cow

• factory

• oak tree

What is a way farmers water their fields in dry climates with no close water source?

• irrigation

• fertilization

• rotation

• rest