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;there are three main types of mining (long wall mining, shaft mining and pillar mining) they are all dangerous for humans.
sent.Cattle and sheep are produced in large numbers in some of the provinces, while in others mining forms the chief industry.
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;cutting down all the trees
sent.The process of reckless deforestation is perceptible in certain districts, the natives often destroying a whole tree for a plank or rafter.
Ex.cutting up
Ex.breaking down
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;farming impacts the land in a variety of negative ways but it can be done sustainably.
Agriculture exists only for the supply of local needs, though tobacco of a superior quality is grown.
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; when there are too many herbivores for a given area
Estimates of overgrazing worldwide are on the order of one third of all rangeland |
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;loss of forests due to building cities and results in “heat islands”
"The city has undergone a great deal of urbanization over the past few years - there are now 30,000 more houses" "The Green party are against urbanization of this town, because it is protected" |
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;all land serves a purpose, it may filter water, hold ground water or supply nutrients for a forest.
Land use involves the management and modification of natural environment |
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. one that does NOT naturally replenish in a lifetime
As these richest ores are exhausted, poorer and poorer ones will be used, and the cost of iron will increase progressively if measured either in units of the actual energy used in mining and smelting it, or in its power of purchasing animal and vegetable products, cotton, wool, corn, &c., the supply of which is renewable and indeed capable of very great increase, but probably not if measured in its power of purchasing the various mineral products, e.g
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; naturally replenishes itself over time
Its purpose was to enable a competent commission, renewable in part each year, to utilize a portion of funds entrusted to it in inquiries on the best methods of furthering the interests of the community, and, when the funds became large enough, to apply their income directly to schemes of betterment.
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; one that can be processed and made into a new product
The formidable defensive system on which the German Higher Command, apparently with good reasons, relied to hold up the Allied advance until the winter should give pause to active operations and secure for their hard-driven troops and warweary people a little respite from their trials and disillusionments, had been burst into fragments, and there was left for German arms no further resource for staving off disaster.
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