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Geo Ch. 5
geo terms
word | definition |
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Natural Resources | useful materials found int he environment. |
Raw Materials | natural resources that must be worked on to be useful. |
renewable resources | resources that can be replaced. |
nonrenewable resources | resources that cannot be replaced. |
environment | natural surroundings. |
manufacturing | the large scale production of goods by hand or machine. |
colonization | a movement of new settlers and their culture to a country. |
industrialization | the growth of machine powered production. |
First level activities | Hunt, cut wood, mine, fish, and farm. producing goods. |
second level activities | manufactoring production of goods. |
third level activities | services of selling goods. |
deforestation | the loss of a forest cover in a region. |
biodiversity | a richness of different kinds of living things. |
civil engineering | technology for building structures that alter the landscape such as dams, canals, roads, and bridges. |
pollution | waste that makes the air soil or less clean. |