Pollution
Harmful chemicals that are in the air.
What is air pollution?
Using energy from the sun, usually with panels.
What is solar energy?
The main gas that causes climate change, it is mostly made by burning fossil fuels.
What is carbon dioxide?
When we turn old materials into new ones.
What is recycling?
The interactions between organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?
What is noise pollution?
Energy that uses wind turbines to turn blowing air into electricity.
What is wind energy?
The material we use to make recycled paper.
What is old cardboard and used paper?
When animals are in danger of disappearing.
Tiny pieces of plastic that can be commonly found in the ocean.
What are microplastics?
Ways to generate electricity from unlimited natural resources.
What is renewable energy?
What we call climate change that makes the earth's surface hotter.
What is global warming?
What is reduce?
The name of a place where an animal lives.
What is habitat?
The gas that cars make which contributes to air pollution and climate change.
What is carbon dioxide?
The opposite of renewable energy, they use finite resources and make lots of pollution.
What are fossil fuels? (oil, gas, coal)
One of the main ways we can reduce carbon dioxide production, using solar power, wind turbines, hydropower, etc.
What is renewable energy?
When we use products and materials for longer so we don't have to buy new ones.
What is reuse?
The process of destroying and cutting down too many trees.
What is deforestation?
Using methods to reduce pollution by using less energy and resources so that we have a better future.
What is sustainable?
The energy that is made from moving water, like rivers or dams.
What is hydropower?
When the earth warms up and causes less water to be around.
What are droughts?
When we buy, use, or eat something. Doing so increases our environmental impact.
What is consumption?
Long-term changes in the earth's weather and temperature that directly harms wildlife.
What is climate change?