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natural resources | useful materials found in the environment. |
raw materials | natural resources that must be worked to be useful. |
renewable resources | natural resources that can be replaced. |
nonrenewable resources | natural resources that can't be replaced. |
environment | natural surroundings. |
manufacturing | the large scale production of goods by hand or machine. |
colonization | the movement of settlers and their culture to a new country. |
industrialization | the growth of machine powered production in an economy. |
deforestation | the loss of forest cover in a region. |
biodiversity | a richness of a different kinds of living things in a region. |
civil engineering | technology for building structures that after the landscape such as dams, roads, and bridges. |
pollution | waste usually man made that makes the air, water, and soil. |