garbage, trash | rubbish |
garbage, trash | rubbish |
garbage, trash | rubbish |
garbage, trash | rubbish |
garbage, trash | rubbish |
garbage, trash | rubbish |
garbage, trash | rubbish |
garbage, trash | rubbish |
garbage, trash | rubbish |
garbage, trash | rubbish |
garbage, trash | rubbish |
to damage, to destroy | wreck |
to damage, to destroy | wreck |
to damage, to destroy | wreck |
to damage, to destroy | wreck |
to damage, to destroy | wreck |
to damage, to destroy | wreck |
to damage, to destroy | wreck |
To have an influence on something | Affect |
food, water, warmth, etc | Basic needs |
The act of using my strength or power to hurt or frighten weaker people (usually at school) | bullying |
a gas in the air we breathe | Carbon Dioxide |
the state of employing children to work | child labour |
an act which is not legal and may be punished by law | crime |
to become worse | decline |
the cutting down of trees | Deforestation |
the state of being paid to work for a company | employment |
the act of using sb/sth to my advantage | exploitation |
choosing when to have children and how many to have | family planning |
a situation in which large numbers of people have little or no food, and many of them die | famine |
a number | figure |
substances,such as coal or oil, which are made from naturally destroyed parts of dead animals or plants, and are burnt to provide heat or power | fossil fuels |
a rise in the Earth's temperature caused by polluted gases | global warming |
gases that are created from burning fossil fuels and cause our atmosphere to heat up | greenhouse gases |
the condition of not having a home | homelessness |
the act of downloading copyrighted material from the internet without paying for it | illlegal downloading of songs/films |
a matter | issue |
to change from solid to liquid when heated | melt |
the act of catching too many fish | overfishing |
the condition of having too many people for the resources available in a place | overpopulation |
the reduction of ozone in the atmosphere | ozone depletion |
the huge masses of ice at the North or South Poles | Polar ice caps |
the condition of being extremely poor | poverty |
the amount of money and comfort that certain people have | standard of living |
extreme suffering or death bcs of lack of food | starvation |
to catch, to hold in a place | trap |
to leave a place/ person/ thing | abandon |
in danger | at risk |
a landmass made from coral | atoll |
a way of thinking and acting | attitude |
knowing about sth | aware of |
to be upset to the point of crying | be moved to tears |
cruel, violent | brutal |
if it hadn't been for | but for |
a serious, deadly, disease of the stomach and intestines found mainly in tropical countries | cholera |
a member of a country, city etc | citizen |
to believe sth to be true | claim |
the fact that the weather and temperatures change around the world | climate change |
a result | consequence |
harmful bcs of chemicals or radiation | contaminated |
to formally announce | declare |
to ask firmly and forcefully | demand |
to be affected or determined by sth | depend on |
to write down or create a suggestion or plan | draw up |
a long period of time without no rain falls | drought |
as a result of, bcs of | due to |
a result, a consequence | effect |
to become known | emerge |
a cargo of emergency supplies | emergency shipment |
to leave my country in order to go and live in another country | emigrate |
causing strong feelings | emotional |
totally, fully | entirely |
an ancestor | forefather |
gas releases | gas emissions |
what sth natural is made of, especially concerning rock | geological makeup |
water that comes naturally from under that ground | groundwater |
to cultivate plants to eat | grow crops |
edible crops grown in our own country | home-grown food |
our native country | homeland |
to bring into a country through legal means | import |
certain to happen and can't be prevented or avoided | inevitable |
in a direction away from the sea and towards the centre of an area of land | inland |
an absence of sth, a shortage | lack |
sb who mediates between two parties to reach an agreement | negotiator |
to give the main ideas of sth | outline |
sth that happens and is studied bcs it is difficult to understand | phenomenon |
an idea, a plan | proposal |
water in form of rain | rainwater |
to continue to be | remain |
sb who acts on behalfor an another person or group of people | representative |
the height of sea water compared to the land | sea levels |
important | significant |
considerably | significantly |
to go below the srface of the water | sink |
the top layer of earth in which plants grow | soil |
to result in sth, to mean | spell |
a period when emergency measures are put in place to safeguard people | state of emergency |
the act of getting bigger bcs of heat | thermal expansion |
unsuitable for people to live there | uninhabitable |
clearly | vividly |
not having a sufficient supply of water to meet needs | water shortage |
a volcano which may erupt at any time | active volcano |
very modern, ahead of the time | advanced |
to influence | affect |
a tremor after an earthquake | aftershock |
an idea which was not originaly intended but was thought of later | afterthought |
the greyish-white or black powder created when a volcano erupts | ash |
not sleeping | awake |
to get caught and held in place | be/get trepped |
extremely cold | bitterly cold |
a snowstorm with strong winds | blizzard |
sb wounded or killed in an event | casualty |
to cut down | chop down |
to make sth neat ad tidy | clean up |
to fall down | collapse |
to make a subtance harmful by putting sth in it | contaminate |
formation made of small sea creatures called coral | coral reef |
to rely on sb | count on |
to harm to injure | damage |
highly destructive | devastating |
to throw away unwanted things | dispose of |
a sudden and unexpected heavy fall of rain | downpour |
a class of animals and plants which is in danger of becoming extingt | endangered species |
an instance of hot rocks and ash exploding out of the top of a volcano | eruption |
(of group of people) to move away from a place of danger to somewhere safer | evacuate |
gases released by a vehice when the engine is running | exhaust fumes |
to carry out tests to learn sth or to discover if sth works or is true | experiment on |
a forceful outburst of a bomb | explosion |
a prediction about sth based on given information | forecast |
the cold weather conditions which allow a thin layer of powdery ice to form (also called frost) | frost |
to find a way to get/have sth | gain access to sth |
an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere considered responsible for global warming | greenhouse effect |
a short and sudden rush of wind | gust |
to cause injury or pain | hurt |
inability to read and write | illiteracy |
better than before | improved |
waste products from factories | industrial waste |
to affect with a disease-causing organism | infect |
to hurt or wound | injure |
not guilty of doing sth wrong | innocent |
to hit sth, such as a door, in a fast action inorder to get attention | knock |
dead people | lost lives |
below zero | minus |
being absent and making sb feel sad | missed |
the condition when an oil tanker spills oil into the sea | oil spill |
the prat of the atmosphere which protects us from sun | ozone layer |
to die, to pass away | pass |
to deal with the consequence of an acction | pay the price |
to mkae sth dangerous by putting a lethal substance in it | poison |
to mamke air, soil or water dirty | pollute |
substandard sewege and other systems for dealing with human waste | poor sanitation |
a substance consisting of very fine small pieces | powder |
to stop sth from happening | prevent from |
main, the most important | primary |
to suggest | put forward |
to extinguish | put on |
treating sb differently bcs of their race or skin colour | racial discrimination |
the state of being able to identify sb/sth | recognition |
to not accept sth or agree to so sth, to turn down | reject |
to happen as a consequence of sth else | result from |
getting higher | rissing |
to destroy | ruin |
to demage, to do harm | spoil |
sb who suffers from an illness | sufferer |
to get rid of | throw away |
very heavy rain | torrential rain |
to believe that sb is good and honest and will not harm me | trust |
to swich off, to stop | turn off |
to make sb unhappy | upset |
to damage, to destroy | wreck |
an ancotrollable desire to have sth regularly | addction |
accommodation that people on low income can afford to live in | affrotable housing |
to start dealing with bad or illegal behaviour in a more severe way | crack dwon |
the process of sharing, spreading and supplying sth | distribution |
to find paid work | gain employment |
dangers to our health | health risks |
more and more | increasingly |
following legal rules | law-abiding |
legally; rightfully | legitimately |
the state of being underfed | malnourishment |
products for sale | merchandise |
the belief that some behaviours is right and some is wrong | morality |
illegally copying computer programs, music, films etc and selling them | piracy |
to experience difficulty with sth | struggle |
medical centre | treatment centre |
a list of people who have asked for sth which is not immediately available but which they might be able to receive in the future | waiting list |
putting some equipment in position or into working order | installation |
a large deep hole where large amounts of rubbish are put | landfill |
usually enegry generated by natural sources, such as wind, water, sunlight | renewable |
carbon dioxide gas released into the atmosphere | carbon emissions |
the practice of a group of people taking turns to drive each other to work, or drive each other's children to school, rather then using separate cars | carpooling |
being extremely important; affecting the whole world | global proportions |
the need for food | hunger |
a means of automatically watering plants and crops | irrigation system |
a harvest; the amount of sth produced or grown | yield |
garbage, rubbish | litter |
anything which has been used and is not needed anymore | waste |
garbage, trash | rubbish |