vocab test 13

Question 1

Endurance

Answer 1

The ability to withstand stress or hardship

Question 2

inundate

Answer 2

To flood or overflow or to overrun or overwhelm

Question 3

Phenomenon

Answer 3

A fact or even that can be seen or felt or something unusual and remarkable

Question 3

Vital

Answer 3

Necessary for supporting life

Question 4

Jostled

Answer 4

Bumped or pushed around roughly

Question 5

Hearty

Answer 5

Full of wimp and friendliness until a further time

Question 6

Emotion

Answer 6

Any strong feeling something

Question 7

Procrastinate

Answer 7

To put off doing

Question 8

Greed

Answer 8

Intense and selfish desire for something especially money power or food

Question 9

Stewardship

Answer 9

The job of supervising or taking care of something

Question 10

Protector/guardian

Answer 10

Bender or caretaker

Question 11

Smog

Answer 11

Fog or Hayes combined with smoke in another atmosphere pollution

Question 12

Destruction

Answer 12

The action or process of causing so much danger to something that can no longer exist or cannot be repaired

Question 13

Advocacy

Answer 13

Public support for or recommendation of particular policy

Question 14

Environmentalist

Answer 14

Concern about and action take to support the environment

Question 15

Initiative

Answer 15

The ability to access and start things independently action

Question 16

Conservation

Answer 16

Preventing of wasteful use of resources

Question 17

Redemption

Answer 17

The action of regaining or saving something

Question 18

Hydrosphere

Answer 18

All the water on Earth including water on the surface underground and in the air

Question 19

Geosphere

Answer 19

What is on the surface of the earth that is not living desert Force valleys mountains planes

Question 20

Atmosphere

Answer 20

The envelope of gases surrounding the Earth or another planet

Question 21

Biosphere

Answer 21

Surface of the Earth with living organism (all life)

Question 22

Chain reaction

Answer 22

The idea that interaction leads to another reaction (domino effect)

Question 23

Stock

Answer 23

Part of a company that you can buy in order to invest in it

Question 24

Dividend

Answer 24

Part of a company profits that can be earned by an investor

Question 25

Hoovervilles

Answer 25

Shanty Villages of homeless people named after Herbert Hoover erupted during the Great Depression

Question 26

The Dust Bowl

Answer 26

A severe drought that plagued most of the Midwest region of the USA it killed many crops

Question 27

John Steinbeck

Answer 27

A author who wrote many books and stories about life in California and Midwest during 1930s

Question 28

Dorothea Lange

Answer 28

A photographer best known for pictures she took immigrants in California during the Great Depression

Question 29

Ansel Adams

Answer 29

A photographer during the Great Depression that focused on landscapes and National Parks

Question 30

Soup kitchens

Answer 30

Kitchens that sprung up all over the country during the Great Depression to provide food for those who could not afford it