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chapter5 vocab words
geo chapter 5
Question | Answer |
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Natural resources | Useful materials found in the environment. |
Raw materials | Natural Resources that must be useful. |
Renewable resources | 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 hand or machine. |
Colonization | movement of settlers and their culture to new country. |
industrialization | the growth of a machine-powered production in an economy. |
Deforestation | a loss of forest in a 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, bridges. |
pollution | waste, usually man-made, that makes the air, water, or soil less clean. |