Global Issues Vocabulary

Greenhouse effect :

• the Sun's radiation is trapped in the atmosphere and leads to a warming of the Earth

• fuels formed over a long time from material containing carbon. The main fossil fuels are coal, oil and natural gas.

• a gas in the atmosphere which can trap the heat escaping from Earth.

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Radiation:

• a continued warming of the atmosphere as a result of mankind's activities.

• a gas in the atmosphere which can trap the heat escaping from Earth.

• energy that passes from a warmer object to a cooler one.

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Global warming:

• a continued warming of the atmosphere as a result of mankind's activities.

• the Sun's radiation is trapped in the atmosphere and leads to a warming of the Earth.

• a gas in the atmosphere which can trap the heat escaping from Earth.

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society:

• a population of humans with patterns of relationships between individuals that share a distinctive culture and/or institutions.

• society in which there is a cultural diversity.

• against society

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Immigration.

• A primary social group consisting of parents and their offspring

• The movement of non-native people into a country in order to settle there

• Health, happiness, prosperity, and well-being in general

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POVERTY

• a belief that one's race is superior (better) and therefore, has a right to rule the other

• living in a community rather than in isolation (alone)

• state of having little or no money

RACISM

• to make or see a difference on the basis of (class, race, religion, gender) and then, showing unfair treatment because of it

• a belief that one's race is superior (better) and therefore, has a right to rule the other

• a conflict carried on by force of arms between nations or between parties within a nation;

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Income Inequality

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Overfishing

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Water crisis

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