Basic Vocabulary HUMAN IMPACTS

Consequence

• a result or effect of an action or condition

• a type of punishment for wrongdoing

• a planned outcome of an event

• a method of achieving a goal

Organic

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• A method of farming without synthetic fertilizers

• A style of architecture

• A genre of music

Deplete

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• To use up resources

• To increase in quantity

• To gather together

Hydrologic

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• A term used for geological formations

• Referring to atmospheric pressure

• Describing the process of photosynthesis

Urbanization

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• A type of agricultural practice

• The decline of city populations

• The increase in agricultural land

Unintended

• planned or meant

• not planned or meant

• deliberately arranged

• intentionally designed

Proximity

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• A type of communication

• A method of teaching

• A form of entertainment

Conservation

• to save

• to waste

• to ignore

• to destroy

Trends

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• Random fluctuations

• Static observations

• Historical anomalies

Preserve

• to destroy something completely

• to maintain (something) in its original or existing state.

• to change something for the better

• to ignore something completely