Environmental issues - 11º

What is environment?

• is a tropical tree of the orderMalvales and the familyMalvaceae

• is the practice within a specific social group, caste or ethnic group, rejecting those from others as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships.

• The environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population

• are resources that exist without actions of humankind.

What are environmental problems?

• is when the students don't study

• When natural habitats are destroyed or natural resources are depleted, the environment is degraded.

• Environmental protection is a practice of protecting the natural environment on individual, organizational or governmental levels, for the benefit of both the environment and humans

• Environmental issues or problems are harmful effects of human activity on the biophysical environment.

Glacier is ...

• rain that contain dangerous chemicals because of smoke from cars and factories.

• the warming of the Earth's atmosphere that is caused by air pollution.

• a very large area of ice that moves slowly down a slope or valley or over a wide area of land.

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A hurricane is...

• the protection of animals, plants and natural resources.

• an extremely large, powerful, and destructive storm with very strong winds that occurs especially in the western part of the Atlantic ocean.

• a very large area of ice that moves slowly down a slope or valley or over a wide area of land.

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Global warming is...

• used to describe a type of animal or plant that has become very rare and that could die out completely.

• able to be extended for another time period: able to be renewed.

• the rise of air temperatures near Earth's surface.

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Global warming is one of the causes of _____, which affects our weather patterns.

• droughts

• climate change

• air pollution

• recycle

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Which options are consequences of global warming? (more than one possible)

• descending sea levels

• melting glaciers

• constant temperatures

• extinction of species

• increasing number of droughts and floods

Acid rain is ...

• used to describe a type of animal or plant that has become very rare and that could die out completely.

• an extremely large, powerful, and destructive storm with very strong winds that occurs especially in the western part of the Atlantic ocean.

• rain that contain dangerous chemicals because of smoke from cars and factories.

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Greenhouse effect is ...

• the warming of the Earth's atmosphere that is caused by air pollution.

• used to describe a type of animal or plant that has become very rare and that could die out completely.

• a very large area of ice that moves slowly down a slope or valley or over a wide area of land.

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Ozone layer is ...

• the rise of air temperatures near Earth's surface.

• a layer in the upper atmosphere that prevents dangerous radiation from the sun from reaching the surface of the Earth.

• used to describe a type of animal or plant that has become very rare and that could die out completely.

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