Chapter 5 Community Environments

using resources wisely

• ecosystem

• recycle

• conserve

• physical environment

the physical environment and all the living things in it that work together

• conserve

• ecosystem

• recycle

• physical environment

use it again

• ecosystem

• physical environment

• recycle

• conserve

this part of the region includes landforms and climates

• physical environment

• recycle

• ecosystem

• conserve

large land area that has special features

• natural resources

• minerals

• landforms

• region

useful materials that come from the Earth

• minerals

• landforms

• region

• natural resources

natural resources that have never been alive

• region

• landforms

• minerals

• natural resources

a shape or part of the Earth's surface, such as a mountain or a plain

• landforms

• minerals

• natural resources

• region

mixture of earth, straw, and water that is formed into bricks and dried

• fuel

• climate

• adobe

• adapt

the kind of weather a place has from year to year

• climate

• adobe

• fuel

• adapt