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Geo Ch. 5
geography vocab
Question | Answer |
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Natural resources | Useful materials found in the environment. |
Raw materials | Natural resources must be worked to be useful. |
Renewable resources | Resources that can be replaced. |
Nonrenewable resources | Resources that cannot be replaced. |
Environment | Natural surroundings. |
Manufacturing | Large-scale production of goods by hand or machine. |
Colonization | Movement of new settlers and their cultures to a country. |
First Level activities | Direct uses of natural resources. |
Second level activities | Proses resources. |
Third level activities | Selling resources. |
Deforestation | The loss of forest cover in a region. |
Biodiversity | Ricunes of different kind of living things. |
Civil engineering | Technology for building structures that altere the land scape such as dams, canals, roads and brigs. |
Pollution | waste that makes the air, soil or water less clean. |