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Unit 8 Vocabulary Review

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Adapting plants and animals for human use is known as

a)

Cash crops

b)

Domestication

c)

Biofuels

d)

Escarpment

2.

Which of the following best describes an escarpment?

a)

A steep cliff separating a higher and lower land surface

b)

An area in which the properties of the land undergo a radical change

c)

A farm crop grown to be sold or traded rather than used by the farm family

d)

A common language used among people with different native languages

3.

Fuel created from living matter such as trees is called

(a)  

4.

A(n) ____________ is an area in which the land properties undergo a radical change.

a)

desert

b)

plateau

c)

escarpment

d)

transition zone

5.

Which of the following best describes a lingua franca?

a)

A common language used between people with different native languages

b)

The first language you grow up learning

c)

A type of family that is headed by a male family member

d)

A type of religion that believes spirits inhabit all natural things

6.

The carrying capacity of a place is the maximum (a)   of a given species that an environment can sustain.

7.

A family that is headed by a male family member is called

a)

matrilineal

b)

matriarchal

c)

patriarchal

d)

patrilineal

8.

Illegal hunting is known as

a)

poaching

b)

domesticating

c)

animism

d)

patriarchy

9.

A farm crop grown to be sold or traded rather than used by the farm family is called a

(a)  

10.

Traditional religious beliefs in which nature and objects are said to have spirits is called

a)

poaching

b)

animism

c)

lingua franca

d)

spirituality