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AQA Environmet terms
Long and complicated terms
Question | Answer |
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la pollution atmospherique | atmospheric pollution |
la croissance de le consommation | increase in consumption |
la circulation routiere, arienne, | road and air |
l'incinertation des ordures menageres | incineration of household waste |
des dechets industriels | industrial waste |
des chauffages des maisons | heating of households |
des fumes des centrales electriques | emissions (smoke) from electrical power plants |
les accidents de petroliers | accidents from petrol tankers |
des dechets industriels et agricoles, | industrial and agricultural waste |
d'egouts | from sewers |
des rejets de navires ou de naufrages | rejection (dumping) from ships or shipwrecks |
romper l'equilibre naturel de certaines ecosystemes | to break the natural balance of certain eco systems |
les canicules | heatwaves |
la fonte des calottes glaciaires | melting of the ice caps |
la secheresse | drought |
les inondations | floods |
la rapidite de la montee des temperatures | the speed of rising temperatures |
le rechauffement climatique planetaire | climatic heating of the planet |
une elevation moyenne du niveau des oceans | the average elevation of the level of the oceans |