Collaborative glossary 2015

Collaborative Glossary

2015

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Collaborative Glossary 2015

• Renewable Resources:It is a natural resource that can be restoredby natural

processes at a rate higher than the consumption by humans.

• Cristian Bacher.

• Floods: is the occupation by water areas that are usually free from this, either by overflowing rivers, watercourses by heavy rainfall, snowmelt, by rising tides above the usual level, avalanches caused by tsunamis.

• Cristian Bacher.

Collaborative glossary 2015

• Volcanoes: Mount with a crater at its summit, which

is connected to a magma chamber.

• Sea: Mass of salt water covering much of the earth´s surface.

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• Oil: One of the world's most

important chemical substance and

is crucial to transport systems.

Rocío Di Baja

• Glaciers: Huge mass of dense ice

that originates on land. They have

the ability to move and some

glaciers are small, while others grow

to be hundreds of kilometers long.

Rocío Di Baja

Collaborative glossary 2015.

• Coral reef: are diverse underwater ecosystems held together by calcium carbonate structures secreted by corals. Coral reefs are built by colonies of tiny animalss found in marine waters that contain few nutrients. Often are called "rainforests of the sea" shallow coral reefs form some of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth.

Collaborative glossary 2015.

• Rainforests: are forests

characterized by high rainfall, with

annual rainfall between 250 and 450

centimetres.

There are two types of rainforest:

tropical rainforest and temperate

rainforest.

Agustina Silvestri


• Deforestation: Is a process usually caused by humanaction in which the forest area is destroyed. Mainly dueto logging well as land for agriculture and livestock

• Camila Vicente..


• Greenhouse: Temperature Rise atmosphere That will occur as a result of the concentration in the atmosphere of gases, mainly carbon dioxide .

• Camila Vicente...


• Climate Change: It is climate modification which are caused by rising global temperatures and the society that creates new technology every day. This is the most important environmental problem facing humanity

• Evelyn Castellòn


• Pollution: It is the presence of any chemical, physical or biological agent or a combination of several drugs, on places, ways and ambient concentrations. Or can be not harmful to the health, safety or welfare of the population, or harmful to animal or plant life

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Collaborative glossary 2015