Pollution Vocabulary

when gases, dust, smoke, or odor get into the air and make it unclean

• land pollution

• air pollution

• littering

made up of all of the living and nonliving things in an area.

• ecosystem

• landfill

• natural resources

destruction of the earth's land surfaces because of human activities and their misuse of land resources

• ecosystem

• land pollution

• natural resources

a system of garbage and trash disposal in which waste is buried between layers of earth.

• conservation

• land pollution

• landfill

when waste from homes, factories and other buildings get into the lakes, rivers, the oceans

• water pollution

• land pollution

• waste

finding a new way to use trash so that we don't have to throw it out

• recycle

• reuse

• conservation

a substance that makes something (as air or water) impure and often unsafe

• natural resources

• pollution

• pollutant

cutting back on the amount of trash we make

• recycle

• hazardous

• reduce

to throw or leave trash on the ground

• littering

• hazardous

• recycling

things that would have been thrown away are reused instead in new products

• reduce

• reuse

• recycling