Environmental Resources and Cultural Exchange

Clearing forests to use the area for other purposes

• Renewable Resource

• Deforestation

• Non-Renewable Resource

Refers to a natural resource that can be replenished naturally

• Renewable Resource

• Climate

• Columbian Exchange

Refers to natural resources that cannot be remade or replenished

• Modification

• Climate

• Non-renewable Resource

a pattern resulting from the combination of precipitation and temperature over time in a location

• Climate

• Clutural Diffusion

• Natural Resource

conditions needed to create goods and services in an economy, generally land, labor, and capital

• Cultural Diffusion

• Natural Resource

• Factors of Production

Materials found in nature that are often used for economic gain

• Natural Resource

• Multicultural

• Columbian Exchange

the process of spreading cultural traits from one region to another

• Deforestation

• Cultural Diffusion

• Factors of Production

interchange of plants, animals, diseases, people, and culture between the Western and Eastern hemispheres following the voyages of Columbus

• Renewable Resources

• Modification

• Columbian Exchange

process of changing the environment

• Modification

• Climate

• Deforestation

several cultural or ethnic groups within a society

• Climate

• Multicultural

• Columbian Exchange