Unit 8 Vocabulary Review

Adapting plants and animals for human use is known as

• Cash crops

• Domestication

• Biofuels

• Escarpment

Which of the following best describes an escarpment?

• A steep cliff separating a higher and lower land surface

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

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

• A common language used among people with different native languages

Fuel created from living matter such as trees is called

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

• desert

• plateau

• escarpment

• transition zone

Which of the following best describes a lingua franca?

• A common language used between people with different native languages

• The first language you grow up learning

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

• A type of religion that believes spirits inhabit all natural things

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

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

• matrilineal

• matriarchal

• patriarchal

• patrilineal

Illegal hunting is known as

• poaching

• domesticating

• animism

• patriarchy

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

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

• poaching

• animism

• lingua franca

• spirituality