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FlashCards por Riona Stevenson, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Riona Stevenson
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| Questão | Responda |
| Arable | Suitable for growing crops |
| Blanket Bog | Shallow bog found in the west and mountainous areas of Ireland |
| Continental shelf | Sea bed surrounding a continent, up to 200m deep |
| Deplete | To decrease or reduce the quantity of something |
| Ditcher | A machine used for draining peat bogs |
| Exploit | To make full use of something and get benefits from it |
| Finite | Having an end to something (e.g finite source of fossil fuels) |
| Grader | A machine used to level earth |
| Input | The things needed to begin a process in a system |
| Irrigation | The artificial watering of land |
| Miller | A machine used to harvest peat by scraping it from the top of a bog |
| Mixed farm | A farm that grows crops and raised animals |
| Net mesh size | The size of the holes in a fishing net |
| Non-renewable | Something that cannot be replaced once used (e.g oil, gas and coal) |
| Output | The products or results of a system |
| Overfishing | To fish so much that |
| Plankton | Tiny organisms that drift on the oceans currents and are eaten by fish |
| Primary activity | Economic activity using Earth's resources (e.g rocks, soil, water) |
| Process | A task or job done within a system |
| Quota | A specific amount you cannot exceed |
| Raised bog | Deep bog suitable for extensive exploitation |
| Renewable | Something that can be reused over and over again |
| Secondary activity | Economic activity that involves processing raw material into products |
| Sustainable | Capable of being continued with minimal long-term effects on people and the environment |
| Tertiary activity | Economic activity that involves providing a service to people |
| Tillage | The production of crops |
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