Green Vocabulary
Any type of activity that is participated in by society as a whole. Trends can be long-lasting or short-lived.
What are Social Trends?
To make something new from (something that has been used before)
What is Recycling?
Natural sources of energy such as petroleum, coal, or natural gas that form within the earth from
ancient animal and plant remains.
What are Fossil Fuels?
The water that comes down the pipes from faucets.
What is Gray Water?
Trams, Trains, Bikes, Walking, Carpooling, Car sharing, etc.
What are green/sustainable modes of transportation?
Energy, transportation, laws, building materials, green spaces, and food & water
What are the components of our sustainable cities that we are building?
Buses, trains, and other forms of transport that are available to the public, charge set fares, and run on fixed routes.
What is Public Transport?
Power produced by running or falling water, which may be used to produce electricity.
What is Hydropower?
Energy captured from the Sun.
What are solar panels?
The ability for something to be maintained or keep going.
What is Sustainable?
What is 'Green'?
Government ideas/laws being supported by the majority of people.
What are Political Trends?
Energy from a source that can run out or that takes a long time for the earth to produce, such as oil
and coal
What is Renewable Energy?
Energy captured from falling/moving water.
What is a dam?
The total amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere by a person, organization,
event or product.
What is carbon footprint?
The direction buildings should face if they are in the desert in order to stay cool.
What is North?
What’s popular in a particular group of people and their habits, beliefs, traditions.
What are Cultural Trends?
Energy from a source that cannot be used up or run out, such as energy from wind or water.
What is Nonrenewable Energy?
Roof gardens, planters, parks etc..
What is Green Space?
Changes in weather patterns and the overall temperature of the earth.
What is Climate Change?
Pumping water through tubes that are exposed to the sun.
What is a way to heat water without using gas or electricity?
Popular exchanges between producers & consumers.
What are Economic Trends?
Energy derived from the sun in the form of solar radiation
What is Solar Energy?
Energy captured from wind.
What are Wind Mills?
Gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, that trap heat in the atmosphere and
make the earth warmer.
What are Greenhouse Gases?