Chapter 5 Vocabulary *Griffin*

rain mixed with other pollutants in the air

• acid rain

• cold rain

• smog

the introduction of harmful gases or particles into the atmosphere

• arable

• air pollution

• erode

sutiable for growing crops

• dark soil

• plain

• arable

to wear away rock, land, soil, or a physical feature; by wind, water or ice

• erode

• peninsula

• fallout

radioactive particles that spread through the atmosphere

• smog

• acid rain

• fallout

believing in one god

• monotheistic

• autocracy

• republican

the energy created by splitting atoms of uranium

• air pollution

• nuclear power

• arable

a large area of flat land with few trees

• prairie

• plain

• tundra

an area of land surrounded by water on 3 sides

• island

• peninsula

• Georgia

a brownish-yellow haze caused by a high level of pollutants in the air

• bog

• fog

• smog