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WS unit 3
Modern Issues: Resource Allocation and Poverty
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Water scarcity | Where there is not enough water to meet normal needs for water usage |
| Drought | A long period of very low rainfall, especially a dry period that affects growing or living conditions. |
| Famine | Severe hunger due to a wide-reaching food shortage |
| natural resources | Materials that occur in nature and can be used by man, such as water, coal, land… |
| CROP Walk | A Hunger Walk sponsored by Church World Service – an international organization that works with partners to fight hunger and poverty and to promote peace and justice around the world |
| renewable resource | Any natural resource (like wood or solar energy) that can be replaced naturally with the passage of time |
| Arable land | Land that can be used to grow crops |
| WHO (World Health Organization) | An agency of the United Nations, established in 1948 to promote health and control communicable diseases |