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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |