Unit 4 Vocabualry

1. To handle, direct, govern, or control in action or use
5. the science art or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock; farming
7. The act, process, or industry of extracting minerals from mines
9. surrounding things, condition, or influences; the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors
12. The focus of managing vegetations, restoring ecosystems, reducing hazards, and maintaining forest health
13. A place of residence; dwelling abode
14. the clearing or severe thinning of a forest leaving few trees
17. The way humans impact the environment; how the environment impacts humans

2. adjust or modify
3. Participation in activities that improve one’s community
4. insufficiency or shortness of supply
6. To divide and give out in shares; resource distribution is the geographic occurrence or spatial arrangement of resources on earth
8. the quality of not depleting natural resources and thereby supporting the environment
10. No longer in existence; having ended or died out
11. to use or use up
15. Extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical region
16. a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed