Environmental Issues - Vocabulary

Ecosystem

• to release or project something (eg. light, sound, smoke, gas, radiation, etc.)

• the complex system of relationships between living things and their environment.

• to release or project something (eg. light, sound, smoke, gas, radiation, etc.)

• no longer existing or lost forever (of an animal, bird or plant species.)

Acid rain

• rain that contains harmful chemicals that collect in the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned.

• the protection and preservation of natural environments and resources.

• the complex system of relationships between living things and their environment.

• to release or project something (eg. light, sound, smoke, gas, radiation, etc.)

Carbon Dioxide

• the complex system of relationships between living things and their environment.

• higher air and sea temperatures partly caused by man-made increases in greenhouse-gas levels.

• a gas that's released when carbon is burned (for example coal or oil), or when people or animals breathe out.

• a gas in the atmosphere that stops heat from escaping into space.

Conservation

• to release or project something (eg. light, sound, smoke, gas, radiation, etc.)

• the complex system of relationships between living things and their environment.

• the protection and preservation of natural environments and resources.

• to add chemicals or organic material to soil so that plants grow better.

Food chain

• the order in which organisms in an ecosystem eat one another.

• to add chemicals or organic material to soil so that plants grow better.

• the complex system of relationships between living things and their environment.

• a gas in the atmosphere that stops heat from escaping into space.

fossil fuels

• higher air and sea temperatures partly caused by man-made increases in greenhouse-gas levels.

• a gas in the atmosphere that stops heat from escaping into space.

• the place in which a species normally lives.

• a fuel like oil or coal formed from very old plant and animal fossils.

Global warming

• a gas in the atmosphere that stops heat from escaping into space.

• higher air and sea temperatures partly caused by man-made increases in greenhouse-gas levels.

• the place in which a species normally lives.

• a gas that's released when carbon is burned (for example coal or oil), or when people or animals breathe out.

Green house gas

• a gas in the atmosphere that stops heat from escaping into space.

• the place in which a species normally lives.

• dangerous substances that need careful disposal (eg. toxic or nuclear waste.)

• a chemical that's sprayed on crops to stop insects from destroying them.

Habitat

• dangerous substances that need careful disposal (eg. toxic or nuclear waste.)

• to add chemicals or organic material to soil so that plants grow better.

• to release or project something (eg. light, sound, smoke, gas, radiation, etc.)

• the place in which a species normally lives.

Extinct

• no longer existing or lost forever (of an animal, bird or plant species.)

• a chemical that's sprayed on crops to stop insects from destroying them.

• a substance or material that damages the natural environment.

• the contamination of the environment, esp. by industrial waste products and chemicals like pesticides.