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Environment Vocabulary

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  • What's the word for this type of alternative energy?
    hydroelectricity
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  • What's this?
    Solar panel
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  • What are these?
    fossil fuels
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  • What do we call animals which are close to extinction?
    endangered species
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  • What word do we use to describe the relationship between plants and animals in a particular environment?
    ecosystem
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  • What is this?
    a wind turbine/windmill
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  • What's another word for hunting illegally?
    poaching
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  • What are these called?
    emissions/exhaust fumes
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  • What do we call polluted precipitation that damages plants and animals when it falls?
    acid rain
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  • What is this?
    rain forest
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  • Who are they?
    environmentalists
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  • What do we call the increase in temperature happening on the planet?
    global warming
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  • How do you call in one word the combination of atmospheric conditions that occur in place for a prolonged period of time?
    climate
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  • How do you call the gasses that are found in our planet's atmosphere and whose mission is to absorb part of the sun's radiation and maintain the planet's temperature?
    greenhouse gasses
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  • What greenhouse gass is released when we burn fossil fuels?
    CO2
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  • What's this?
    drought
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