PATHWAYS4 VOCABULARY

The layer of gases around a planet

• air pollution

• atmosphere

• loss of forest

Gradual destruction by natural causes such as the weather, the sea, and rivers

• proporation

• restriction

• erosion

A substance used by farmers to help crops grow

• fertilizer

• medicine

• greenhouse

very noticeable; sudden and surprising

• certain

• dramatic

• wonder

Focused only on one thing

• devoted to

• conservation

• to interest

To remove completely

• disappear

• throw

• eleminate

A way of thinking about something

• criticize

• perpective

• imagination

Very great

• profound

• attractive

• enormus

The effect or result of an action

• contemporary

• consequence

• problem

A principle or standard by which something may be decided

• criteria

• critisize

• ordinary