Unit 6 global warming

An increase in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere

• Global warming

• Climate change

• Greenhouse gas

• Carbon footprint

An illness that can be passed from one person to another , especially through the air people breathe

• Climate change

• Infectious disease

• Heat-related illness

• Emission

Poor health resulting from extreme heat

• Global warming

• Carbon footprint

• Heat - related illness

• Ecological balance

Ecosystem (n)

• The mixture of gases surrounding the earth

• Catch and keep somebody/something in a place

• All living creatures and plants in a certain area and the relationships between them

• Take in (gas,liquid,heat) from the space or surface around

Catastrophic (adj)

• Disastrous

• The fact of having many different types of people , animals , plants or things

• When a lot of people do not have enough food and many die

• The mixture of gases surrounding the earth

Famine (n)

• Take in (gas , liquid , heat) from the space or surface around

• The mixture of gases surrounding the earth

• When a lot of people do not have enough food and many die

• Disastrous

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WATER SHORTAGE

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FOREST FIRE

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FLOOD

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Many species are threatened with……due to deforestation and loss of habitat

• Catastrophic

• Emission

• Energy use

• Extinction