Human impact vocab

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Chemicals that damaged the ozone layer, now banned

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chlorofluorocarbons

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1963 US law for national air pollution control

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Clean air act

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Change in global/regional climate patterns due to natural and man-made causes

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Climate change

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Preventing wasteful resource use

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conservation

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Process of cutting down large vegetation areas

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Deforestation

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A place on Earth with little to no precipitation

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Desert

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Process making an area more desert-like

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Desertification

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Government agency enforcing environmental laws

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Environmental Protection Agency

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Result of human and natural processes trapping heat in the atmosphere

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Greenhouse effect

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Gas in the atmosphere that traps heat

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Greenhouse gas