Chapter 5 Vocabulary

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Natural Resource is any useful material found in the environment.

Raw Materials is any resources that must be altered or change, before it can be used.

Recyclable Resource –
Any material that cycle through natural processes is called a recyclable resource. Example: water

Renewable Resource – If a resource can be replaced.

Nonrenewable resource – When they are used up, they can not be replaced.

Fossil Fuels - These are fuel such as coal, natural gas, and petroleum.

Manufacturing – When a product is processed, it is changed from a raw material into a finished product.

Developed nations – Countries that have many industries

Developing nations – countries that have few industries

Commercial farming – companies that run large farms

Subsistence farming – producing enough food to feed your animals and family.

Plantations – large farm owned by few people that usually only produce one crop.

Foreign aid – Developing countries often get help from developed counties. This is usually in the form of gifts or loans.

Ecosystem is a place where living non-living elements depend on one another, for their survival.

Deforestation is the cutting down of forest and wooded land.

Habitat is a place where people or animals live.

Acid rain is rain that carries dangerous chemicals.

Ozone Layer is a layer of gas in the upper atmosphere that blocks out most of the harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun.

Global Warming is a slow increase in the earths temperature.

Recycle is to reuse resources or old material and to make new ones out of them.