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Key Environmental Concepts Explained

The document discusses various environmental issues including air quality, biodiversity loss, and endangered species such as white rhinos. It highlights the impact of human activities like factory emissions and fossil fuel use on global warming and natural disasters. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of environmentally friendly practices, paper recycling, and the dangers of toxic waste and poaching.

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Key Environmental Concepts Explained

The document discusses various environmental issues including air quality, biodiversity loss, and endangered species such as white rhinos. It highlights the impact of human activities like factory emissions and fossil fuel use on global warming and natural disasters. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of environmentally friendly practices, paper recycling, and the dangers of toxic waste and poaching.

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Environment

 air quality: the cleanliness of the air we [Link] to the opening


of a new factory nearby, the air quality here went down.
 bio-diversity: a diversity in nature, among plants and
[Link], we suffer the loss of bio-diversity.
 endangered species: a category of animals or plans that might
become [Link] rhinos are endangered species. There are only 5
white rhinos left in the world.
 environmentally friendly: products that do not harm the
environment.I try to use only environmentally friendly goods in order
to preserve the nature.
 exhaust fumes: gases, ejected from an engine as waste products.I
bought an electric car to avoid producing exhaust fumes when I drive.
 fossil fuels: energy resources like gas and [Link] is one of the most
well-known fossil fuels.
 global warming: an increase in temperature all-over the world, as a
result of greenhouse [Link] worming is a very serious problem
that our society is dealing with.
 greenhouse effect: heating of the atmosphere due to the carbon
dioxide and other [Link] effect causes global warming.
 melting of glaciers: the process of icebergs' [Link] of
glaciers increases the sea-level.
 natural disaster: an event like an earthquake, hurricane etc.I
experienced a natural disaster in the form of an earthquake last year.
 paper recycling: the processes of reprocessing waste paper for
[Link] was found that paper recycling causes 35% less water
pollution and 74% less air pollution than making virgin paper.
 poacher: one who kills or takes wild animals [Link] is
considered a violation of hunting rules and impedes wildlife
conservation.
 toxic waste: poisonous rubbish, produced by industrial
[Link] factories in my city dump toxic waste into rivers and
lakes.

Useful phrases:

 to become extinct: to stop [Link] became extinct may


centuries ago.
 to be under threat: to be in danger of becoming [Link] Rhinos
are under the threat of becoming extinct.
 to dry up: to have all the water drained [Link] small river in my
hometown dried up this summer due to the enormous heat.
 to get back to nature: live a life that is closer to [Link] friend
decided to leave his boring job and move to the countryside to get
back to nature.
 to litter: to throw rubbish in inappropriate places.I always try to find a
garbage bin to throw my trash in. I don't like to litter.

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