Unit 3 Vocabulary

Clearing forests to use the area for other purposes

• Renewable Resources

• Deforestation

• Columbian Exchange

• Natural Resources

Refers to a natural resource that can be replenished naturally.

• Natural Resource

• Renewable Resource

• Factors of Production

• Non Renewable Resouce

The process of spreading cultural traits form one region to another.

• Columbian Exchange

• Modification

• Deforestation

• Cultural Diffusion

An interchange of plants, animals, disease, people and culture between the Western and Eastern hemisphers following the voyages of Columbus.

• Cultural Diffusion

• Columbian Exchange

• Modification

• Natural Resources

Conditions needed to create goods and services in an economy, generally land, labor and capital.

• Natural Resources

• Modification

• Factors of Production

• Columbian Exchange

Materials found in nature that are often used for economic gain.

• Factors of production

• Natural Resources

• Non Renewable Resources

• Renewable Resouces

Refers to natural resources that cannot be remade or replenished

• Non Renewable Resources

• Renewable Resources

• Natural Resources

• Cultural Diffusion

A pattern resulting from the combination of precipitation and temperature over time in a location.

• Modification

• Non Renewable Resource

• Renewable Resource

• Climate

Process of changing the environment

• Climate

• Deforestation

• Modification

• Factors of Production