Environment Vocabulary

What happens during deforestation?

• A tree is cut down

• New trees are planted

• A large area of trees is cleared or removed

Taking shorter showers and turning off the water is an example of...

• filtration

• conserve a resource

• sustainable

When there is no rainfall for a long period of time it is called a

To pollute or add something harmful is

• contamination

• filtration

• preserve

Filtration is

• cleaning trash from the ocean

• adding harmful particles to water

• removing something unwanted from water

The weather that happens in a place over many years is called

I __________ the milk by putting it in the cold refrigerator.

Define microplastic

• large pieces of plastic

• extremely tiny pieces of plastic

• plastic that can be found in water, air, bottles

• particles when plastic breaks apart

Using natural resources so that we can keep them a long time is called

• conserve

• recycling

• pollution

• sustainable

Which are examples of sustainability?

• reusing a bag for groceries

• throwing away bottles of water every day

• using boxes that can be recycled

• Walking instead of driving when you can