Climate Change Vocab.

a synonym for vanish is:

• appear

• disappear

• grow and reproduce

• emit

Something that is "extremely important" is

• crucial

• negligible

• organized

• useless

cars and factories ___________ green house gasses, especially CO₂

• absorb

• emit

• shrink

• elate

Some practical things we can do to help the environment include:

• Use more public transportation

• Eat less red meat

• Grow our own food

• All of these.

Exceptional temperatures mean that the temperatures have been much __________ than usual.

• greater

• lesser

• more interesting

• more normal

to shrink means:

• to make larger

• to stretch out

• to explode

• to make smaller

We need to make more laws to regulate emissions form vehicles. A synonym for regulate is:

• create

• ignore

• control

• undermine

A synonym for "hurt" is:

• help

• harm

• live

• thrive

Many companies are ____________ money in renewable energy such as ___________.

• losing; solar panels

• investing; fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas)

• investing; solar and wind power

We are currently exhausting our natural resources (like forests and land).

Exhausting in this sentence means:

• really tired

• increasing

• depleting or using up

• celebrating