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GeoCh5
geography terms chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Natural Resources | useful materials found in the environment. |
| Raw materials | Natural Resources that must be worked on to be useful. |
| Renewable resources | Natural resources that can be replaced |
| Nonrenewable resources | Natural resources that cant 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 of their country |
| industrialization | the growth of machine powered production in an economy. |
| Deforestation | a loss of forest covering a region |
| Biodiversity | a richness of different kinds of living things in a region |
| Civil Engineering | Tech. fro building structures that alter the landscape, such as dams roads and bridges, |
| pollution | Man-made waste that makes the air, water or soil less clean. |