Unit 4 Vocabulary

Economic development

• the process of improving the economic, political, and social well-being of a community

• The other one

• the process of Trees being torn down and not replaced

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Sustainable Development

• development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

• something that can be used to help, or a supply of something that can be used

Resources

• something that can be used to help, or a supply of something that can be used 

• A large body of water

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Deforestation

• the clearing or thinning of forests by humans

• development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

• something that can be used to help, or a supply of something that can be used: 

   

Environment

• the living and non-living things that an organism interacts with, or that have an effect on it

• the clearing or thinning of forests by humans

• development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Human-environmental interactions

• interactions between the human social system and the ecosystem

• development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

• the process of improving the economic, political, and social well-being of a community.

Migration

• the clearing or thinning of forests by humans

• the physical movement of people from one place to another

•  between the human social system and the ecosystem

Globalization

• interactions between the human social system and the ecosystem.

• the process of increasing the connections between people and places around the world

• the living and non-living things that an organism interacts with, or that have an effect on it

Desertification

• the clearing or thinning of forests by humans

• the sum of all the living and non-living things that surround a living organism, including the physical, chemical, and biotic factors that affect it

• the process by which dry areas, like grasslands and shrublands, become increasingly arid and lose their vegetation, wildlife, and bodies

Equator

• the sum of all the living and non-living things that surround a living organism, including the physical, chemical, and biotic factors that affect it

• an imaginary line around the middle of a planet or other celestial body

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