4

system employing
subsystems with
specific design
functions. Some of
these consist of
thousands of
component parts
that have evolved
from breakthroughs
in existing
technology or from
new discoveries

3
Automobile
byname auto , also
called motorcar ,
or car a usually
four-wheeled
vehicle designed
primarily for
passenger
transportation and
commonly
propelled by an
internal-combustion

8
City
relatively
permanent and
highly organized
centre of
population, of
greater size or
importance than a
town or village. The
name city is given
to certain urban
communities by

7
Tree
woody plant that
renews its growth
every year (called a
perennial). Most
plants classified as
trees have a single
self-supporting
trunk containing
woody tissues, and
in most species the
trunk produces

Pollution
6
also called
environmental
pollution the
addition of any
substance or form
of energy (e.g.,
heat, sound,
radioactivity) to the
environment at a
rate faster than the
environment can
accommodate it by

5
of steel and
nonferrous metals,
as well as from.
factors such as air
pollution, safety
legislation, and
foreign competition

11 with other
parties. Such a
process can occur
only when there are
at least two parties,
each of whom has
something to offer.
In addition,
exchange cannot
occur unless the
parties are able to
communicate about

Marketing
10
the sum
of activities
involved in
directing the flow of
goods and services
from producers to
consumers.
Marketing's
principal function is
to promote and
facilitate exchange.
Through marketing,

9
most cases,
however, the
concept of city
refers to a
particular type of
community, the
urban community,
and its culture,
known as
urbanism.

12
accept or
reject what others
are offering. So
defined, marketing
is distinguished
from other modes
of obtaining desired
goods, such as
through selfproduction,
begging, theft, or
force. parties must
16
treated
in
the
article
conservation.
Hazards
to life in the
biosphere
are
discussed in the
articles
death,
disease,
and
immune system
20
Computer
device for
processing, storing,
and displaying
information.
Computer once
meant a person
who did
computations, but
now the term
almost universally

15

biosphere.The
significant
environmental
changes
that
have
occurred
during
Earth's
history
are
surveyed in the
article
geochronology.
The pollution of
the environment
19
and
the
perfected
by the
late
1980s.
Nuclear
energy
has been released
explosively
by
both
nuclear
fusion and nuclear
fission (qq.v.).

2
satisfactorily
covers
The
variety
publications
identified

of
so.

14
articles
atmosphere,
climate,
continental
landform,
hydrosphere, and
ocean.
The
relationship
between
the
principal systems
and components
of
the
18
environment,
and
of atoms. One
method of
releasing nuclear
energy is by
controlled nuclear
fission in devices
called reactors,
which now operate
in many parts of
the world. Another
method for

1
Book
published work of
literature
or
scholarship;
the
term has been
defined
by
UNESCO
for
statistical
purposes as a
non-periodical
printed
publication of at
least 49 pages

Environment
13
the
complex of
physical, chemical,
and biotic factors
that act upon an
organism or an
ecological
community and
ultimately
determine its form
and survival.
The
Earth's
17
nuclear
energy
also
called Atomic
Energy, energy
that is released in
significant amounts
in processes that
affect atomic
nuclei, the dense
cores of atoms. It is
distinct from the

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on the ground and
during takeoff and
landing. Most
planes feature an
enclosed body
(fuselage) to house
the crew,
passengers, and
cargo; the cockpit
is the area from
which the pilot
operates the

23
airplane are a wing
system to sustain it
in flight, tail
surfaces to stabilize
the wings, movable
surfaces to control
the attitude of the
plane in flight, and
a power plant to
provide the thrust
necessary to push
the vehicle through

22
Airplane
also
called aeroplane or
plane any of a
class of fixed-wing
aircraft that is
heavier than air,
propelled by a
screw propeller or a
high-velocity jet,
and supported by
the dynamic

21
digital electronic
computers and
their design,
constituent parts,
and applications.
The second section
covers the history
of computing. For
details on computer
architecture,
software, and
theory,.

28
Terrorism
the systematic use
of violence to
create a general
climate of fear in a
population and
thereby to bring
about a particular
political objective.
Terrorism has been
practiced by
political

27
differentiated from
the marriage pair,
but the
essence of the
family group is the
parent-child
relationship, which
may be absent
from many
marriage pairs.

26
distinguished from
a
household, which
may include
boarders and
roomers sharing a
common residence.
It should also be
differentiated from
a kindred (which
also concerns blood
lines), because a

25
Family
a group of persons
united by the ties of
marriage, blood, or
adoption,
constituting a
single household
and interacting with
each other in their
respective social
positions, usually
those of spouses,

32
world people are
starving? Is going
to
war justified in
cases where it is
likely
that
innocent
people
will be killed? Is it
wrong to clone a
human being or to
destroy
human
36
embryos
in
AIDS
medical research?
byname of
acquired
immunodeficiency
syndrome transmis
sible disease of the
immune system
caused by the
human
immunodeficiency
virus (HIV). HIV

31
creation
of
beautiful
happiness, will it
be our own or the
happiness of all?
And what of the
more
particular
questions
that
face us: is it right
to be dishonest in
a good
35 cause?
Can we justify
and it also can be
living in opulence
present as a gas
cap above the oil.
Such natural gas is
known as
associated gas.
There are also
reservoirs that
contain gas and no
oil. This gas is
termed

30
Ethics
also called moral
philosophy the discipline
concerned with what is
morally good and bad,
right and wrong. The
term is also applied to
any system or theory of
moral values or
principles.34
How should
we
live? Shall
natural
gaswe aim at
happiness
or at highly
colourless,

29
Religious groups,
by
revolutionaries, and
even by state
institutions such as
armies, intelligence
services, and
police.

flammable gaseous
hydrocarbon
consisting primarily
of methane and
ethane. It is a type
of petroleum that
commonly occurs in
association with
crude oil. Natural

33
the generations of
humans who will
come after us and
to
the
nonhuman
animals
with
whom we share
the planet?

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infection, leaving
an
individual
vulnerable to a
variety of other
infections and
certain
malignancies that
eventually cause
death. AIDS is the
final stage of HIV
infection, during