Core Concept #4 - Environment

Useful materials found in teh environment

• continent

• cars

• natural resources

• environment

A resource that Earth or people can replace

• fossil fuel

• renewable resource

• nonrenewable resource

• suburb

A resource that cannot be replaced in a relatively short period of time

• colonization

• industrialization

• renewable resource

• nonrenewable resource

Nonrenewable resources formed over millions of years from the remains of plants and animals

• fossil fuels

• agriculture

• industrialization

• spillover

A movement of new settlers and their culture to an area

• suburb

• human environment interaction

• populatin

• colonization

The development of machine-powered production and manufacturing

• suburb

• industrialization

• revolution

• agriculture

A residential area on the edge of a city or large town

• suburb

• urban

• rural

• industrialization

The loss of forest cover in a region

• biodiversity

• spillover

• deforestation

• pollution

The variety of living things in a region or ecosystem

• weather

• climate

• biodiversity

• biome

Waste that makes the air, soil, or water less clean

• spillover

• pollution

• deforestation

• desertification