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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 | Natural resources that can be replaced. |
Nonrenewable resources | Natural resources that can not be replaced. |
Environment | Natural surroundings |
Manufacturing | the large-scale production of goods by hand or by machine |
Colonization | the movement of settlers and their culture to a new country |
industrialization | the growth of machine powered production in our economy |
Deforestation | a loss of forest cover in a region |
Biodiversity | a richness of different kinds of living things in a region |
Civil engineering | technology for building structures that alter the landscape such as dams, roads, bridges |
pollution | waste, usually man-made, that makes the air, water, or soil less clean |