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ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
Question: Hunting, fishing and mining.
Answer: What are primary activities?
Question: Plumbing, trucking, and sales
Answer: What are tertiary activities?
Question: Manufacturing furniture, cars and clothes
Answer: What are secondary activities?
Question: Goods purchased from another country
Answer: What are imports?
Question: When exports are greater than imports.
Answer: What is a favorable trade balance?
THE SILK ROAD
Question: This elite, toga wearing cultural group loved their silk.
Answer: Who are the Romans?
Question: What a group of traders traveling on the Silk Road were called.
Answer: What is a caravan?
Question: People brought this to Europe via the Silk Road, killing millions of people ans an example of the Geographic theme of Movement of people.
Answer: What is disease?
Question: Traders brought this idea to other parts of the world via the Silk Road, and is an example of the geographic theme of Movement and ideas.
Answer: What is Hinduism (religion)?
Question: Traders used the Silk Road to buy and sell these goods, an example of the theme of Movement of goods.
Answer: What are silk, spices and gems?
ENERGY
Question: has no greenhouse gas emmissions and is reliable, but there is environmental impact to water supply caused buy dams.
Answer: What is hydro-power?
Question: A renewable energy source that is in abundant supply, but requires a lot of water to grow its main source.
Answer: What is biofuel?
Question: Emits greenhouse gases, hurts the environment and can be dangerous to miners to extract from the ground.
Answer: What is coal?
Question: It in non-polluting and the most abundant energy source available, but has a high initial investment and is dependent upon the weather
Answer: What is solar energy?
Question: It is widely available and is the cleanest-burning fossil fuel, but transportation costs are high and while it burn cleanly, still has greenhouse gas emmissions
Answer: What is natural gas?
FRESHWATER
Question: 1 billion people (1 out of every 7) on our planet are without this
Answer: What is clean freshwater?
Question: 2.7 billion people on this planet do not have access to this
Answer: What is sanitation?
Question: Between chicken, beef and potatoes, a pound of this requires the most water to produce
Answer: What is beef?
Question: They connect land and water, and act as a filter, removing pollutants.
Answer: What are wetlands?
Question: Most of the water used for agriculture, comes from this water source
Answer: What is groundwater?
WATER GRABBERS
Question: This country is giving away its water to foreigners at the expense of its own citizens.
Answer: What is Mali?
Question: 2013
Answer: What year is the United Nations International Year of Water Coopoeration?
Question: The United States built dams in this river and in doing so impacted the water supply of the Cucapa. the "people of the river" - located in Mexico.
Answer: What is the Colorado River?
Question: Better agricultural technology, geo-political stability, effective use of rainfall and adressing home use are examples of this
Answer: What are solutions to Water Grabbers?
Question: While it may be a good solution for people without access to clean freshwater, the production, transportation and disposal of this item causes environmental problems
Answer: What is bottled water?