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Term | Definition |
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sewage system | receives and treats human waste |
safe water | water that is free of harmful chemicals and disease causing organism |
polluted | containing harmful chemicals or organisms |
condominium | building with many individual living units |
town house | one row of houses connected by a common sided wall |
famines | widespread starvation |
contaminating | adding materials that will change the purity or usefulness of a substance |
urine | liquid body waste |
feces | solid body waste |
parasite | live on the inside or outside another organism with no benefit to the host |
insect | impact heavily on our environment |
immune | cannot be affected by the organism |
reaper | machine to cut small grain |
combine | harvests the grain |
mold board plow | piece of steel cut from a saw blade |
cotton gin | removes cotton seeds |
corn picker | removes ears of corn from the stalks |
barbed wire | wire with sharp points to keep the livestock from the fence |
milking machine | replaced hand milking |
tractor | source of power for belt driven machines as well as for pulling |
legume | plant that hosts nitrogen-fixing bacteria |
tofu | a popular Chinese food made by boiling and crushing soy beans coagulating the resulting soy milk and pressing the curds into desired shapes |
katahdin | a popular potato verity of the 1930s |
BelRus | a superior baking verity bred to grow well in the northeast |