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geoch5
ch 5 vocab
Question | Answer |
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Natural resources | useful materials |
Raw materials | Natural resources that must be worked to be useful |
Renewable resources | Resources that can be replaced |
Nonrenewable resources | Resources that cannot be replaced |
Environment | Natural surroundings |
Manufacturing | 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 | A loss of forest cover in a region |
Biodiversity | A richness of a different kind of living things in a region |
Civil engineering | Waste usually man-made that makes the air or soil or water less wheat |
pollution | Technology for building structures that alter the landscape such as dams, roads, or bridges |