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geoch5
chapter 5 vocab
Question | Answer |
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Natural resources | useful materials found in the environment |
Raw materials | natural resources that must be useful |
renewable resources | natural resources that can be replaced |
nonrenewable resources | natural resources that can not be replaced |
environment | natural surroundings |
manufacturing | the large scale production of goods by hands or by machine |
colonization | the movement of settlers and their culture to a new country |
industrialization | the growth of machine-powered production in an economy |
deforestation | a loss of forest cover in a region |
biodiversity | a richness of different kinds of living things in a region |
civil engineering | technology for building structures that alter the landscape, such as dams, roads, and bridges |
pollution | usually man-made, that makes the air, water, or soil less clean |