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GeoCh5
Chapter 5 vocab words
Question | Answer |
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Natural resources | useful materials found in the environment |
Raw materials | natural resources that must be worked to be useful |
Renewable resources | resources that can be replaced |
Nonrenewable resources | resources that can not be replaced |
Environment | natural surroundings |
Manufacturing | large scale production of goods by hand, machine..ect. |
Colonization | movement of new settlers |
Industrialization | growth of machine powered production |
Deforestation | loss of forest cover in a region |
Biodiversity | richness of different kind of living thing |
C engineering | technology for building structures that alter the landscape, such as dams, canals, roads. |
Pollution | waste that makes the air soil or water less clean |