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Term | Definition |
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heavy industry | manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment |
light industry | such as making textiles or processing food |
mixed farming | raising several kinds of crops and livestock on the same farm |
collective farms | receiving wages plus a share of products and profits or on state farms |
European union | unites much of western Europe into one trading community |
state farms | not sharing in the profits but getting wages like factory workers |
genetically modified foods | foods with genes altered to make them grow bigger or faster or be more resistant to pest |
masstricht treaty | set up the (e.u) |
acid rain | polluted clouds drifting from the industrial belt of Europe |
environmentalist | people concerned with the quality of the environment |
green house effect | CO2 and other gases traps suns heat near the earths surface |
organic farming | using natural substances instead of fertilizers and chemicals to increase crop yields |