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  • a type of animal or plant that might stop existing because there are only a few of that type alive.
    endangered species
  • the act of someone coming to live in a different country:
    immigration
  • (threats of) violent action for political purposes:
    terrorism
  • is the name given by the World Health Organization (WHO) on February 11, 2020 for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. It started in Wuhan, China in late 2019 and has since spread worldwide.is an acronym that stands for
    covid-19
  • armed fighting between two or more countries or groups, or a particular example of this:
    war
  • damage caused to water, air, etc. by harmful substances or waste:
    pollution
  • the state of being without a home:
    homelessness
  • the act of attacking ships in order to steal from them:
    piracy
  • a gradual increase in world temperatures caused by gases such as carbon dioxide that are collecting in the air around the earth and stopping heat escaping into space
    global warming
  • an extremely large wave caused by a violent movement of the earth under the sea.
    tsunami
  • the use of children to do work that should be done by adults:
    child labour
  • the belief that people's qualities are influenced by their race and that the members of other races are not as good as the members of your own, or the resulting unfair treatment of members of other races:
    racism
  • the ability to read and write:
    literacy
  • the condition of being extremely poor:
    poverty
  • a person who has escaped from their own country for political, religious, or economic reasons or because of a war:
    refugees
  • a situation in which there is not enough food for a great number of people, causing illness and death, or a particular period when this happens:
    famine