Unit 3 Week 1 Vocabulary Cultivating Natural Resources

grown for human usage

• depleting

• cultivated

• photosynthesis

• emergence

create; produce

• root

• generate

• consumption

• glucose

a byproduct of the burning of fuel

• cultivated

• generate

• carbon emissions

• photosynthesis

the use of resources

• carbon emissions

• emergence

• consumption

• cultivated

The process by which plants turn sunlight into glucose

• ethanol

• cultivated

• root

• photosynthesis

a plant anchor; it also collects water and nutrients

• depleting

• root

• glucose

• ethanol

a simple sugar produced by plants through photosynthesis

• cultivated

• ethanol

• root

• glucose

using more than can be replaced

• depleting

• consumption

• cultivated

• generate

coming into being; beginning

• depleting

• root

• emergence

• cultivated

a bio-fuel source derived from corn

• ethanol

• carbon emissions

• glucose

• emergence