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HEI Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Global Warming | A gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants. |
Greenhouse Gases | Greenhouse gases are gases in an atmosphere that absorb and emit radiation within the thermal infrared range. |
Greenhouse Effect | the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface. |
Acid Rain | Rainfall made sufficiently acidic by atmospheric pollution that it causes environmental harm, typically to forests and lakes |
Pollution | The presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects. |
Adapt | Make (something) suitable for a new use or purpose; modify. |
Depend | Be controlled or determined by. |
Modify | Make partial or minor changes to (something), typically so as to improve it or to make it less extreme. |
Natural Disaster | A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g., flood, tornado, hurricane, volcanic eruption, earthquake, or landslide) that affects the environment, and leads to financial, environmental and/or human losses |
Deforestation | The state of being clear of trees. |