People & the Environment Vocabulary

​ ​ (a)   useful material found in the environment.

• natural resource
• renewable resource
• non renewable resource

​ ​ (a)   formed over millions of years from the remains of plants and animals.

• Fossil fuel
• gas
• coal
• petrolum

​ (a)    is the development of machine powered production and manufacturing.  

• Industrialization
• revolution
• urbanization
• democracy

​ (a)   the loss of forest cover in a region.

• Deforestation
• rain forest
• extract

​ (a)   is the number of types of living things in a region or ecosystem.

• Biodiversity
• biology
• diversre
• diversre
• science

​ (a)   people who leave their home country. To migrate out of a place.

• Emigrate
• migrate
• alein
• citizen

​ (a)   reasons that push (cause) people to leave their home country.

• Push factors
• pull factors
• addition
• luxuries

​ (a)   (pull or attract) people to a new country that people migrate (move) to.

• Pull factors
• push
• stop
• movement

​ (a)   the movement of people from rural (country)  areas to urban (city)  areas.

• Urbanization
• country
• farm
• location

​ (a)   imaginary line that measures east and west of the equator

• Latitude
• longitude
• prime meridian
• equator