Europe - Environmental Issues Vocabulary

useful material found in the environment

• natural resources

• acid rain

• pollution

• smog

the Ukrainian site of a nuclear power plant that exploded in April, 1986 releasing radiation into the environment

• smokeless zones

• nuclear energy

• exclusion zone

• Chernobyl

non-renewable resource formed over millions of years from the remains of ancient plants and animals

• nuclear energy

• acid rain

• fossil fuel

• hydroelectricity

the process of clearing forests, selling the timber, and using the cleared land for other purposes

• deforestation

• renewable resources

• non-renewable resources

• nuclear energy

air pollution caused by sunlight acting on the gases from automobiles and factory exhaust

• fossil fuels

• air pollution

• smog

• environment

the surroundings or condition in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates

• renewable resources

• evacuation zone

• deforestation

• environment

a restricted 30 mile area around the Chernobyl power station that was abandoned by humans due to a toxic level of radiation

• exclusion zone

• smokeless zones

• deforestation

• inclusion zone

generating electricity using water-driven turbines

• fossil fuels

• hydroelectricity

• nuclear energy

• emissions

the act of producing or sending out something, such as energy, smoke, gas or radiation, from a source

• emissions

• renewable resources

• deforestation

• smokeless zones

clouds or rain containing sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxide that cause problems in the environment

• non-renewable resources

• fossil fuels

• acid rain

• radiation