MO Social Studies Chapter 1 Vocabulary Quiz

The study of land and people in a place and how

                            they interact

• recycling

• geography

• plateau

• conservation

One of Earth’s seven great bodies of land - Africa,  

                         Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, 

                         South America

• precipitation

• continent

• nonrenewable resource

• conservation

Half of a sphere; one of the four hemispheres of 

                             Earth

• continent

• natural resource

• hemisphere

• recycling

A period when temperatures are so cold, for so long, 

                   that glaciers form on the Earth’s surface

• plateau

• Ice Age

• continent

• geography

An area of flat land, higher than the surrounding 

                    country

• plateau

• hemisphere

• natural resources

• precipitation

The moisture that falls to the ground as rain, 

                               snow, sleet, or hail

• Ice Age

• precipitation

• conservation

• plateau

Something found in the environment that 

                                          people can use

• natural resource

• conservation

• recycling

• plateau

 A natural resource that can be replaced

• geography

• precipitation

• renewable resource

• Ice Age

A natural resource that cannot be 

                                                   replaced

• nonrenewable resource

• precipitation

• hemisphere

• continent

The careful use of a natural resource

• continent

• conservation

• plateau

• precipitation