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chapter 4

vocabulary 4

TermDefinition
Greenhouse gases Gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation.
Activists a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change.
Inconceivable not capable of being imagined or grasped mentally; unbelievable.
Carbon Foot print the amount of carbon dioxide and other carbon compounds emitted due to the consumption of fossil fuels by a particular person, group, etc.
Climate Weather change, temperature
Harvesting Growing crops , harvest as a family.
Convert a person who has been persuaded to change their religious faith or other beliefs.
Preserve a sphere of activity regarded as being reserved for a particular person or group.
Depletion reduction in the number or quantity of something
Inhabitants a person who fulfills the requirements for legal residency.
Insulate protect (something) by interposing material that prevents the loss of heat or the intrusion of sound.
Conserve protect (something, especially an environmentally or culturally important place or thing) from harm or destruction.
Composting Recycles organic and whats left over and used.
Incentives a payment or concession to stimulate greater output or investment.
Pollution the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects.
Toxic denoting or relating to debt that has a high risk of default.
Capitalist a wealthy person who uses money to invest in trade and industry for profit in accordance with the principles of capitalism.
Revitalization To impart new life or vigor to: plans to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods
Degradation the condition or process of degrading or being degraded.
Stakeholders (in gambling) an independent party with whom each of those who make a wager deposits the money or counters wagered.
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