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Geo chapter5
Chapter 5 terms
Question | Answer |
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Natural resources | useful materials found in the environment |
Raw materials | natural materials 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 good by hand or by machine |
Colonization | movement of new settlers and their cultural to a country |
Industrialization | the growth of machine powered productions |
Deforestation | the loss of forest to cover in a region |
Biodiversity | is a richness of different kinds of living things |
Civil engineering | technology for building structures that alter the landscape such as dams, canals, roads bridges |
Pollution | waste that makes the air soil or water less clean |