Pollution Vocabulary

When the earth's atmosphere is made dirty

• Pollution

• environment

• biodegradable

• habitat

The blanket of air that surrounds the earth

• landfill

• atmosphere

• natural resource

• deforestation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A place to empty trash and bury it

• deforestation

• your backyard

• habitat

• landfill

Destruction of the earth's land by humans

• environment

• biodegradeable

• land pollution

• natural resource

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Everything around you(air, land, water, etc)

• nonrenewable resource

• environment

• reforestation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Trash that can easily rot or decay into the soil

• biodegradeable

• plastic bottles

• fossil fuels

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

When the earth's air becomes dirty

• water pollution

• land pollution

• air pollution

The place where a plant of animal normally lives

• the aquarium

• the zoo

• habitat

A resource that cannot be reproduced once used

• renewable resource

• nonrenewable resource

• landfill

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

The destruction of earth's water by humans

• water pollution

• air pollution

• space pollution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4