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GeoCh5
geography terms chapter 5
Question | Answer |
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Natural Resources | useful materials found in the environment. |
Raw materials | Natural Resources that must be worked on to be useful. |
Renewable resources | Natural resources that can be replaced |
Nonrenewable resources | Natural resources that cant be replaced |
Environment | natural surroundings |
Manufacturing | The large scale production of goods by hand or by machine |
colonization | the movement of settlers and their culture of their country |
industrialization | the growth of machine powered production in an economy. |
Deforestation | a loss of forest covering a region |
Biodiversity | a richness of different kinds of living things in a region |
Civil Engineering | Tech. fro building structures that alter the landscape, such as dams roads and bridges, |
pollution | Man-made waste that makes the air, water or soil less clean. |