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Vocabulary List
Europe Environmental Issues
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Natural Resources | useful material found in the environment |
| Environment | the surroundings or condition in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates |
| Pollution | any waste that makes the air, soil, or water less clean |
| Renewable resources | resource that earth or people can replace; ex. trees, solar, wind, water |
| Non-renewable resources | resource that cannot be replaced in a relatively short period of time; ex. fossil fuel, coal, natural gas, oil |
| Fossil Fuel | non-renewable resource formed over millions of years from the remains of ancient plants and animals |
| Hydroelectricity | generating electricity using water-driven turbines |
| Air Pollution | occurs when gases, dust particles, fumes (or smoke) or odor are introduced into the atmosphere in a way that makes it harmful to humans, animals and plant. |
| Smog | air pollution caused by sunlight acting on the gases from automobiles and factory exhaust |
| Emissions | the act of producing or sending out something, such as energy, smoke, gas or radiation, from a source |
| Smokeless zones | areas of London where, in order to improve air quality, only smokeless fuels can be used |
| Acid Rain | clouds or rain containing sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxide that cause problems in the environment |
| Deforestation | the process of clearing forests, selling the timber, and using the cleared land for other purposes |
| Nuclear energy | energy that exists in atoms produced by splitting or fusion of the nuclei; produces cheaper energy without filling the air with pollution and using the earth’s supply of fossil fuel |
| Radiation | particles or waves emitted by atoms and molecules of a radioactive substance as a result of atomic decay; it can be harmful to living tissue |
| Chernobyl | the Ukrainian site of a nuclear power plant that exploded in April, 1986 releasing radiation into the environment |
| Exclusion zone | a restricted 30 mile area around the Chernobyl power station that was abandoned by humans due to a toxic level of radiation |
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