Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Housing Ch2
Trivia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The beliefs, social customs, and traits of a group of people. | What is culture? |
| Navajo dwelling made out of logs and mud | What are Hogan's? |
| View that land belongs to everyone | What is common property? |
| Type of ownership Europeans sought in North America | What is private ownership? |
| Directions that the door faced in Navajo dwellings | What is east? |
| Floor types in early housing | What is dirt? |
| Red tile roofs | What is typical Spanish architecture? |
| Traditional building material of the pilgrims homeland | What is wood? |
| The Native Americans who dwelled in cliffs nor rock overhangs | What is a Cliff dweller? |
| They settled in the south and southwest | Who are they Hispanic? |
| Two basic economic influences on housing | What are the production and consumption of goods and services? |
| Objects, qualities, and personal strengths that can be used to reach goals | What are resources? |
| The term for the number of houses being built in a year | What are housing starts? |
| Average number of housing starts in a year | What is 2 million? |
| Type of industry that employs planners, developers, and builders. | What is the housing industry? |
| Term to describe the transfer of dwellings from producers to consumers | What is the housing market? |
| Value of all goods and services produced in a country | What is the gross domestic product? |
| An aspect of home mortgages that seems to increase at the same rate as inflation | What is mortgage interest rates? |
| The portion of income that the average family pays for housing | What is 1/3? |
| The first major sector of the economy to normally rebound after an economic slump | What is housing? |
| The condition, objects, places, and people around you | What is environment? |
| Environment provided by nature | What is natural environment? |
| Weather conditions in a region | What is climate? |
| The lay of the land | What is topography? |
| Architect who designed homes that visually fit with their natural environment | Who is Frank Loyd Wright? |
| An environment changed by human effort | What is the constructed environment? |
| Term describes a negative behavioral environment | What is dysfunctional? |
| Result of one environment affecting another | What is a chain reaction? |
| Resources such as intelligence, talent, and energy | What are human resources? |
| Land, water, trees, and items in nature | What are the elements of the natural environment? |
| Levels at which government influences housing | What are federal, state, and local? |
| Period of first housing laws | What is colonial times? |
| Restrictions that control land use | What are zoning regulations? |
| National guide for building standards | What are uniform building codes? |
| The full name of the department called HUD | What is the US Department of housing and urban development? |
| Minimum standards for building materials and construction | What are building codes? |
| Zone where only houses can be built | What is a residential zone? |
| Help with housing for low income people | What are rent supplements? |
| Do federal agencies concerned with the safety and protection of housing environments | What are the environmental protection agency EPA and the consumer product safety commission CPSC? |
| Environmental concerns in the constructed environment | WHAT IS AIR AND WATER QUALITY? |
| They were here before the colonists | Who are native Americans? |
| Shelter of early humans | What are caves and dugouts? |
| Dwellings of the early native Americans | What are tepees and wigwams? |
| Event we're neighbors would come over to help build a house | What is a house raising? |
| Housing symbol of the early United States | Is the log cabin? |
| People who earned their living from the land | Who are agrarian? |
| The number of people in a given area | What is density? |
| An official count of the population taken by the government | What is a census? |
| Similarly designed houses built in the same development | What are tract houses? |
| A planned urban development | What is new town? |
| Maximum number of members in the majority of US households | What is two? |
| The household group that never marrieds and single-again adults | What is the single person household? |
| People born after World War II through 1964 | Who are baby boomers? |
| Those who most need housing free of physical restrictions | Who are people with disabilities? |
| The income group that represents the largest US category | What is middle income? |
| Term to describe a family where both partners work | What is a dual income family? |
| Statistical facts about the human population | What is demographics? |
| The average number of years between moves | What is four? |
| Terms for Southern and southwestern states | What is the sunbelt? |
| Type of Society where people travel often | What is a mobile society? |
| The occupations that prompted people to abandon caves and build structures for housing | What is farming? |
| Type of knowledge people need to adapt to their environment | What is technology? |
| Event in the late 1800s having a large technological impact on housing | What is the industrial revolution? |
| The primary method of moving goods during the industrial revolution | What is the railroad? |
| The type of technology responsible for many high-tech items in the home | What is a computer? |
| Hi tech appliance found in the kitchens | What is the microwave oven? |
| What CADD means | What is computer – aided drafting and design? |
| Two groups of housing professionals who use CADD | Who are architect and interior designer? |
| Another term for technology | What is high tech? |
| The people who first used Technology | Who are cave dwellers? |
Created by:
Mrs. Ann Kidwell
Popular Marketing sets