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Air Pollution
Term | Definition |
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acid rain | harmful rain that can harm buildings and plants |
climate | average temperature and precipitation in an area |
ecosystem | a specific area where living and nonliving things interact |
fossil fuel | a nonrenewable resource formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago |
ozone | layer of gas that protects us from the Sun's rays |
radon | radioactive odorless, tasteless gas given off by some rocks underground and my cause lung cancer with long term exposure |
smog | a mixture of smoke, fog and chemicals; polluted air |
radioactive | giving off dangerous levels of nuclear energy |
EPA | government agency that enforces laws to help protect the environment; Environmental Protection Agency |
pollutant | wast matter that contaminates the water, air or soil |