Section 24

Question 1

GDP

Answer 1

Gross domestic product
Gross= total
Total number of products made in your country. Health of the nation.

Question 2

Per capita

Answer 2

Wealth ever person has

$/# of people

Question 3

HDI

Answer 3

Human development index
Formula for how a nation develops its people.
Per capita
Healthcare
Education
Life expectancy
Quality of life

Question 4

What is a natural resource?

Answer 4

Material or substance found naturally in the earth
They can be renewable or nonrenewable
Unevenly distributed around the earth

Question 5

Name some renewable resources

Answer 5

Sun, water, wind, wood

Question 6

Name some nonrenewable resources

Answer 6

Oil, gas, coal, diamonds

Question 7

How is oil formed?

Answer 7

Once living (now dead) animals and plants at the bottom of the ocean, heat and pressure change the material into a substance we know as oil. We have to drill through and impermeable rock and get the oil.

Question 8

Why is there a lot in Southwest Asia?

Answer 8

Because Southwest Asia used to be underwater. It was an ocean.

Question 9

OPEC

Answer 9

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Contries

Established in 1960 to make oil stable.

Question 10

petroleum as it comes out of the ground and before it has been refined or processed into useful products

Answer 10

Crude oil

Question 11

the hard outer layer of Earth

Answer 11

The crust

Question 12

a geographic region with too little rainfall to support much plant life; also a vegetation zone

Answer 12

A desert

Question 13

a wealthy country with an advanced economy. They have many industries and provide a comfortable way of life for most of their people.

Answer 13

Developed countries

Question 14

the way people or things are spread out over an area or a space; also the way resources, power, or goods are divided among people or groups

Answer 14

Distribution

Question 15

a group of people in a country who share a unique culture and identity

Answer 15

Ethnic group

Question 16

energy produced by steam or hot water from deep inside Earth

Answer 16

Geothermal energy

Question 17

the total value of goods and services produced in a country in a year

Answer 17

GDP- gross domestic product

Question 18

rock that does not allow liquid or gas to flow through it

Answer 18

Impermeable rock

Question 19

the number of infants, out of every 1,000 babies born in a particular year, who die before reaching age 1

Answer 19

Infant mortality rate

Question 20

The average age to which a person in a given population can expect to live. It varies from one country to another.

Answer 20

Life expectancy

Question 21

Gas found beneath Earth’s surface that can be burned as fuel for cooking, heating homes, and other purposes.

Answer 21

Natural gas

Question 22

A person who wanders from place to place

Answer 22

Nomad

Question 23

A resource that takes so long to form that it can’t be replaced. Oil, which takes millions of years to form, is such a resource.

Answer 23

Nonrenewable resource

Question 24

Oil that has been discovered but remains unused under the ground

Answer 24

Oil reserves

Question 25

By or for each person. A it is calculated by dividing the total amount of something by the number of people in a place.

Answer 25

Per capita

Question 26

an area defined by one or more naturally cultural characteristics that set it apart from other areas.

Answer 26

A region

Question 27

A resource that can’t be used up or that can be replaced quickly as it is used up. One of these resources is sunlight that cannot be used up. Another is wood that can be replaced by planting more trees.

Answer 27

Renewable resource

Question 28

A political area that controls a particular territory.

Answer 28

A state

Question 29

A large piece of Earth’s crust that floats on the liquid mantle.

Answer 29

Tectonic plate