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H.E.L Vocab. Terms
By: Kiana Oates 2/18/15 3-4 Period
Term | Definition |
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Global Warming | A gradual increase int he overall temperatures in the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by the levels of carbon dioxide and many more things that cause this effect. |
Climate Change | a change in global or regional climate patterns. |
Energy Resources | Is a renewable or non-renewable resources used for obtaining for it's own source. |
Green Energy Resources | It basically gets its own energy from the renewable energy and uses it naturally from a human time scale. |
Non-renewable resources | Is a resource that does not renew itself at a sufficient rate for sustainable economic extraction is meaningful to human time frames. |
Renewable resources | Is energy that comes from resources which are naturally replenished in a human timescale. |
Adapt | Make (something) suitable for a new use or purpose; modify. |
Depend | Be controlled on or determined by, rely on. |
Modify | Make partial or minor changes to (something), typically so as improved it or make it less extreme. |
Natural Disater | Is a natural event such as flood, earthquake, or hurricane that causes great damage or loss of life. |
Positive | Consisting in or characterized by the presence or possession of the features or qualities rather than their absence. |
Negative | Consisting in or characterized by the absence rather than the presence of distinguishing features. |