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Question | Answer |
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Natural Resources | Useful materials found in the environment |
Raw materials | Natural resources that must be worked on to be useful |
Renewable resources | resources that can be replace/ used again |
Nonrenewable | resources that can't be replaced/used again |
Environment | natural surroundings |
manufacturing | large scale production of good by hand or machine |
colonization | movement of new settlers and their culture to a county |
industrialization | the growth of machine-powerd production |
First Level activities | Direct interaction with raw materials |
Second level activities | industries transform, deserts,prairie, and woodland |
Third level activities | Development offices,factories,railroad,or highways |
Deforestattion | Loss of forest covering a region |
Biodiversity | richness of different kinds of living things |
Civil engineering | technology of building structures that landscape, such as dams, canals,roads,bridges |
pollution | waste that make the air,soil,or water, less clean |