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chapter5 vocab words
geo chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Natural resources | Useful materials found in the environment. |
| Raw materials | Natural Resources that must be useful. |
| Renewable resources | resources that can be replaced. |
| Nonrenewable resources | Natural resources that can not be replaced. |
| Environment | natural surroundings. |
| Manufacturing | The large-scale production of goods by hand or machine. |
| Colonization | movement of settlers and their culture to new country. |
| industrialization | the growth of a machine-powered production in an economy. |
| Deforestation | a loss of forest in a cover in a region |
| biodiversity | a richness of different kinds of living things in a region. |
| Civil engineering | technology for building structures that alter the landscape such as dams, roads, bridges. |
| pollution | waste, usually man-made, that makes the air, water, or soil less clean. |