Sentences And Words

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Acid rain

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Precipitation that is more acidic than normal

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Chlorofluorocarbons

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Gases containing chlorine and fluorine (also called CFCs)

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Climate

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The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time

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Desertification

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The advance of desert like conditions into areas that previously were fertile

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Development viewpoint

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The belief that humans should be able to freely use and benefit from all of Earths resources

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Global warming

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The theory that increasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere will raise earths average temperature

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Greenhouse effect

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The trapping of heat by certain gases in the atmosphere

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Nutrient depletion

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The situation that arises when more soil nutrients are used than the decomposers can replace

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Ozone layer

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The layer of the atmosphere that contains a higher concentration of ozone than the rest of the atmosphere

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Photochemical smog

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A thick brown haze formed when certain gases react in the sunlight

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Sustainable yield

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A regular amount of renewable resources that can be harvested without reducing the future supply

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Conservation

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The belief that people should use natural resources as long as they do not do not destroy those resources

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Climate conditions determine

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Plants in an area which in turn determine that kinds of animals that live there

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According to the development viewpoint the most valuable

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Parts of the environment are those resources that are most useful to human beings

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Managing fisheries for a sustainable yield includes setting

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Fishing limits changing fishing methods and more

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The construction of buildings roads

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Bridges dams and other structures is called development

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The soil becomes less

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Fertile a situation that is called nutrient depletion

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One cause of desertification

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Is climate

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When acid rain falls into a pond or

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Lake it changes the conditions there

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In the late 1970s scientists observed that

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The amount of ozone in the ozone layer seemed to be decreasing

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But scientists predict that if the ban (on CFS) is

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Maintained the ozone layer will gradually recover

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Without the greenhouse effect earth

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Would be much colder- about 33 degrees on average

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One theory called global warming predicts that the

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Increase in carbon dioxide will cause the average temperature to continue to rise

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The temperature change would affect

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Climate patterns all over the world

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Most scientists base their

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Climate predictions on computer models that calculate the effects of changes in the atmosphere