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Unit 4 Human Impact Pictionary
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Science
9th Grade
12/17/2015

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Term
[image]85. Mining
Definition

Def: The digging to find coal and several types of minerals.

 

Sen: Sometimes when mining they find gold.

 

Ex1: Minerals

Ex2: Coal

Term
[image]86. Deforestation
Definition

Def: Cutting down all the trees.


Sen: After deforestation they use the wood from thetrees to build houses.


Ex1: Houses

Ex2: Forests

Term
[image]88. Overgrazing
Definition

Def: When there are too many herbivors for a given area.

 

Sen: Herbivor isnan animals that only eats plants and vegetables 

 

Ex1: Rabbit

Ex2: Cow

 

Term
[image]89. Urbanization
Definition

Def: Loss of forrests due to building cities and results in "heat islands''.

 

Sen: Urbanization has cost a lot of animlas their homes.

 

Ex1: heat islands

Ex2: city (Charlotte)

Term
[image]90. Land use
Definition

Def: All land serves a pourpose, it may filter water,hold groundwater or supply nutrients for a foret.

 

Sen: This is what the land is here fr and what we want to do with it.

 

Ex1: Buildings

Ex2: Filter groundwater

Term
[image]91. Non renewable
Definition

Def: One that does not naturally replenish in a lifetime

 

Sen A non renewblr resource cannot be be used again once it is gone.

 

Ex1: Coal

Ex2: Oil

Term
[image]92. Renewable resource
Definition

Def: Natrually eplenishes itself over time

 

Sen: If we go out of this we will eventually get more.

 

Ex1: water

Ex2: soloar energy

 

Term
[image]93. Reccyclable Resource
Definition

Def: one that can be processed and made into a mew product

 

Sen: I like to recycle bottle and cans so that I can give back to the earth.

 

Ex1: water bottles

Ex2: Soda cans

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