Chapter 4, Section 4

1. A major factor in determining a country's economic development and trade relationships is knowing what natural resource is abundant in that area.

2. Because of the amount of environment harming substances that are helpful to humans is so high, the Earth is constantly being attacked. With oil tankers and offshore drilling rigs causing oil spills, industries dumping chemical waste, pesticides entering the underground water, and radioactive waste leaking into the soil, our soil and water supplies are constantly being tainted. Air pollution is also a problem due to fossil fuels being continuously burned and acidic chemicals entering the atmosphere.

Creative Writing: My answer on whether undeveloped countries could use fossil fuels would really depend on the resource that replaced fossil fuels. First off, if the resource that replaces fossil fuels is something like corn, then I would agree and say that undeveloped country could use fossil fuels because we, as developed countries, would already be using so much corn as food, not to mention fuel, that in might be more environmentally and economically responsible to just allow them to use fossil fuels. It would also depend on how developed and large the country is already. Using corn as an example again, if the country was small and in the middle of becoming fully developed, then it would be smart to make them use corn, as they would not consume as much with their humans or with their machines.