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| Awareness and action for environment ...eeas.europa.eu |
The environment
Vocabulary check
(Cambridge English Dictionary)
-environment:
EARTH SCIENCE -
the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and plants live:
We’re trying to protect the environment from pollution.
-global warming: a gradual increase in world temperatures caused by gases such as carbondioxide that are collecting in the air around the earth and stopping heat escaping into space.
-acid rain: rain that contains large amounts of harmful chemicals as a result of burning substances such as coal and oil.
-greenhouse effect: an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere (= mixture of gases of around the earth), that is believed to be the cause of a gradual warming of the surface of the earth.
-ozone layer: a layer of air containing ozone high above the earth that prevents harmful ultraviolet light from the sun from reaching the earth.
-oil slick: a layer of oil that is floating over a large area of the surface of the sea, usually because an accident has caused it to escape from a ship or container.
-glacier: a large mass of ice that moves slowly.
-hurricane: a violent wind that has a circular movement, especially in the West Atlantic Ocean.
-ozone layer: a layer of air containing ozone high above the earth that prevents harmful ultraviolet light from the sun from reaching the earth.
-oil slick: a layer of oil that is floating over a large area of the surface of the sea, usually because an accident has caused it to escape from a ship or container.
-glacier: a large mass of ice that moves slowly.
-hurricane: a violent wind that has a circular movement, especially in the West Atlantic Ocean.
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| Glacier | National Geographic Societynationalgeographic.org |
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| How Acid Rain Works | HowStuffWorksscience.howstuffworks.com |
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| Hurricane Lorenzo: how climate change …greenpeace.org |
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| Global Warming vs. Climate Change ...climate.nasa.gov |
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