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La pollution
AQA A2 Level French environment vocabulary -pollution
| French | English |
|---|---|
| à l'échelle mondiale | on a global scale |
| l'assainisement | cleaning-up |
| l’asthme (m) | asthma |
| l’atmosphère (f) | atmosphere |
| augmenter | to increase |
| l'automobiliste | driver |
| l'azote | nitrogen |
| la baleine | whale |
| biodégradable | biodegradable |
| la bombe aérosol | aerosol |
| le bruit | noise |
| le camion | lorry |
| la canicule | heatwave |
| le carburant | fuel |
| les CFC | CFCs |
| le changement climatique | climate change |
| la circulation | traffic |
| la circulation routière | car traffic |
| conduire (conduit) | to drive |
| le conseil | advice |
| la consommation | consumption |
| contaminer | to contaminate |
| la corne de rhinocéros | rhino horn |
| la Côte d’Ivoire | the Ivory Coast |
| la couche d’ozone | ozone layer |
| le cours d'eau | watercourse (artificial water channel) |
| le covoiturage | car-sharing |
| le déboisement | deforestation |
| les déchets (m) | rubbish, waste |
| les déchets nucléaires (m) | nuclear waste |
| dégager | to give off (gas) |
| la désertification | desertification |
| détruire (détruit) | to destroy |
| le déversement | spillage |
| déverser | to spill, release |
| le dioxyde de carbone | carbon dioxide |
| disparaître (disparu) | to disappear |
| les dommages | damages |
| écologique | ecological |
| l’effet (m) de serre | greenhouse effect |
| efficace | effective |
| les effluents (m) | effluent (sewage discharged into the sea) |
| l’embouteillage (m) | traffic jam |
| émettre (émis) | to emit |
| l’empreinte carbonique (f) | carbon footprint |
| en voie de disparition | endangered |
| l’environnement (m) | the environment |
| environnemental | environmental |
| l’équilibre (m) | balance |
| l’équipe (f) | team |
| la espèce en voie d'extinction | threatened species |
| l'essence | petrol |
| exploiter | to exploit |
| le feu | fire |
| le fleuve | major river |
| fondre | to melt |
| la forêt tropicale (humide) | tropical rainforest |
| le gas-oil, le gazole | diesel |
| les gaz carboniques (m) | carbon gases |
| les gaz d´échappement | exhaust gases |
| les gaz toxiques | harmful gas |
| gênant(e) | inconvenient, annoying |
| gêner | to be a nuisance |
| la groupe de pression | pressure group |
| l'habitat | habitat |
| l’heure (f) d’affluence | rush hour |
| les hydrocarbules | hydrocarbons |
| impliquer | to involve |
| l'impôt | tax |
| l'individu | individual |
| l’inondation (f) | flood |
| l'insecte | insect |
| jeter | to throw (away) |
| le littoral, la côte | Coast |
| la marée noire | oil slick |
| le mazout | oil, tar |
| menacé | threatened |
| le mercure | mercury |
| le milieu | surroundings |
| mondial(e) | global |
| le monoxyde de carbone | carbon monoxide |
| le moyen de transport | means of transport |
| le naufrage | a shipwreck |
| le niveau | level |
| nocif (-ve) | harmful |
| nuire à | to harm |
| les nuisances sonores (f) | noise pollution |
| les ordures ménagères (f) | household waste |
| l'organisme (m) | organism, organisation |
| l'oxygène | oxygen |
| le parc automobile | total number of cars |
| le parc national | national park |
| le pétrole | petroleum, oil |
| la piste cyclable | cycle track |
| la planète | planet |
| la plante | plant |
| le plomb | lead |
| les pluies acides (f) | Acid rain |
| le polluant | pollutant |
| polluer | to pollute |
| le pot catalytique | catalytic converter |
| préserver | to preserve |
| primordial | very important, fundamental |
| le problème respiratoire | breathing difficulty |
| produire (produit) | to produce |
| le produit chimique | chemicals |
| la question | issue, matter |
| radioactif (-ve) | radioactive |
| le réchauffement de la planète | global warming |
| réduire (réduit) | to reduce |
| la réglementation | set of rules |
| rejeter | to discharge |
| le réseau routier | road network |
| la réserve naturelle | nature reserve |
| le risque | risk |
| la rivière | river |
| sans plomb | unleaded |
| sauvegarder | to safeguard |
| la sécheresse | drought |
| le siècle | century |
| le souci | worry |
| souiller | to soil, contaminate |
| la survie | survival |
| survivre | to survive |
| la tempête | storm |
| le tigre | tiger |
| toxique | toxic |
| les transports (m) en commun | public transport |
| les transports publics | public transport |
| le trou | hole |
| la vague | wave (water) |
| la zone piétonne | pedestrian zone |
| putrescible | biodegradable |
| l’ère industrielle | industrial era |
| un égout | sewer |
| le navire | ship |
| rompre | to break, to upset |
| voire | indeed, even |
| grimper | to climb |
| le réchauffement | warming |
| la fonte des calottes glaciaires | melting of the ice caps |
| bouleverser | to devastate, upset |
| la balade | walk |
| déranger | to disturb |
| un adhérent | member |
| viser à | to aim at |
| lié à | linked to |
| sensible à | aware |
| gourmand | greedy |
| sache | subj. of savoir - know |
| confier à | to entrust |
| ferroviaire | using rail |
| fluvial | using rivers |
| bannir | banish |
| nuisible | harmful |
| élaborer | to set out |
| puissant | powerful |
| atteigne | subj. of atteindre reach |
| avoir la cote | to be very popular |
| le trou dans la couche d'ozone | hole in the ozone layer |
| La nappe de pétrole | Oil spill, oil slick |
| La nappe de pétrole | Oil spill |
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