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Nature
Destination C1 &C2 Vocabulary Unit 12
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| agriculture | the work, business, or study of farming |
| appreciate (v) | to understand the true nature of a situation, and realize why it is important or serious |
| appreciate (v) | to be grateful for something |
| catastrophe | an event that causes a lot of damage or makes a lot of people suffer |
| crop | a plant grown for food, usually on a farm |
| drought | a long period of time when there is little or no rain and crops die |
| evacuate | to leave a building or other place because it is not safe |
| exploit (v) | to use natural resources such as trees, water, or oil so that you gain as much as possible |
| exploit (v) | to treat someone unfairly in order to get some benefit for yourself |
| famine | a serious lack of food that continues for a long time and causes many people in a country to become ill or die |
| flood (v) | if water floods a place, it covers it |
| flood (n) | a large amount of water that covers an area that was dry before |
| fossil fuels | fuels such as coal or oil, made from decayed material from animals or plants that lived many thousands of years ago |
| global warming | an increase in the average temperature of the Earth |
| greenery | green plants that are growing somewhere or used as decoration |
| habitat | the type of place that a particular animal usually lives in or a particular plant usually grows in |
| harvest (v) | to collect a crop from the fields |
| harvest (n) | the time when a crop is collected |
| hurricane | a violent storm with extremely strong winds and heavy rain |
| instinct | a natural tendency to behave in a particular way that people and animals are born with and that they obey without knowing why |
| natural disaster | something very bad that happens and causes a lot of damage or kills a lot of people |
| resource | things such as coal, trees and oil that exist in nature and can be used by people |
| scarce | if something is scarce, there is not very much of it |
| species | a plant or animal group whose members all have similar general features and are able to produce young plants or animals toghether |
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