Grade 11: Unit 6 (Global warming) - Vocabulary P2

The reason why something, especially something bad, happens

• Effect

• Cause

• Ignorance

• Threat

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A natural event such as a flood, earthquake, ... that kills or injures a lot of people

• Natural disaster

• Natural resources

• Forest fire

• Greenhouse effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A chemical element that is a gas with no smell or colour. It forms a large part of the air on earth, and is needed by animals and plants to live.

• Gas emission

• Fossil fuel

• Oxygen

• Alternative energy

To finish, use, or sell all of something, so that there is none left

• Extinct

• Damage

• Ignore

• Run out

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

A machine, usually with wheels and an engine, used for transporting people or goods, especially on land

• Environment

• Vehicle

• Destruction

• Effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A person who is interested in or studies the environment and who tries to protect it from being damaged by human activities

• Environmentalist

• Environmental

• Environment

• Ignorance

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.3.2E

To intentionally not listen or give attention to

• Identify

• Ignore

• Threat

• Affect

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CCSS.L.11-12.2B

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

CCSS.L.9-10.1.C

An increase in the amount of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere (= mixture of gases around the earth), that is believed to be the cause of a gradual warming of the surface of the earth

• Global warming

• Greenhouse effect

• Natural disaster

• Alternative energy

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The measured amount of heat in a place or in the body

• Temperature

• Oxygen

• Carbon dioxide

• Emission

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

To experience physical or mental pain

• Run out

• Suffer from

• Cause

• Harm

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C