Useful Vocabulary for Causes and Effects of Natural Resources Misuse

Acid rain
Aerosol sprays
Aid
Air pollution
Animal feed
Autumn
Avoid
Bags
Bay
Beak
Biodiversity
Biological
Reserves
Bloom
Bottles
Bridges
Buffer
Burn
Cans
Canyon
Carbon dioxide
Chemical
Claws
Cliff
Coal
Consciousness
Coral Reef
Countryside
Crop
Current
Dam
Damage
Deforestation
Desert
Detergent
Develop
Diminish
Dirt
Discard
Disposable
Disposal
Dress up
Drought
Dry
Dry forest
Dry season
Dune
East

Endangered
species
Environment
Equator
Evening
Extinct
Extinction
Factories
Fall
Farmers
Farmland
Fauna
Feather
Feces
Fences
Fertilizer
Field
Fines
Flood
Flora
Flow
Forest/Woods
Fuel
Garbage
Gas
Ground
Harm
Harmful
Health
Hectare
Heritage
Hill
Hunter
Hurricane
Hydroelectric
power
Improve
Invest
Island
Jungle
Knowledge
Lake
Land
Lit
Litter
Mammals
Marine life
Meadow

Mountain
National Parks
Natural
Resources
North
Nuclear energy
Ocean
Palm leaves
Pasture
Paths
Pesticides
Plains
Plants
Plastic bags
Plateau
Poison
Pollute
Pollution
Pond
Poop
Poultry
Pour
Primary Forest
Private
Profit
Promote
Proper
Protect
Public outreach
Punish
Radiation
Raft
Raging
Rain forest
Raincoat
Rainy
Rainy season
Range
Rapids
Recycle
Remain
Rescue
Resource
Risk
River
Roofs
Rope
Rubbish

Sanctions
Scales
Sea
Seashore
Seasons
Seed
Sewage
Shell
Skin
Smoke
Soil
Solar energy
South
Sponsor
Spot
Spring
Stream/Brook
Strip
Sustainable use
Task
Topsoil
Toxic gases
Toxic waste
Trade
Train
Trash
Valley
Warehouse
Waste
Water pollution
Waterfall
Watersheds
Weather
West
Wild
Wildlife
Wind
Windstorm
Winter
Wood
Worm

most common natural disasters

Hurricane: It is caused by evaporated water that comes off of the ocean and becomes
a storm. The Coriolis Effect causes the storms to spin, and a hurricane is declared when
this spinning mass of storms attains a wind speed greater than 74 mph.
Earthquake: It is the result of a sudden release of energy in the earths crust that
creates seismic waves. They are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a
seismograph.
Tornado: This is a violent phenomenon, rotating columns of air which can blow at
speeds between 50 and 300 mph, and possibly higher. They can occur one at a time, or
can occur in large tornado outbreaks along squall lines or in other large areas of
thunderstorm development.
Volcanic eruption: This is the point in which a volcano is active and releases lava
and poisonous gasses in to the air. They range from daily small eruptions to extremely
infrequent super volcano eruptions.
Tsunami: This is a series of waves created when a body of water, such as an ocean, is
rapidly displaced. Earthquakes, mass movements above or below water, volcanic
eruptions and other underwater explosions, landslides, large meteorite impacts comet
impacts and testing with nuclear weapons at sea all have the potential to generate this
phenomenon.
Flood: An overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land, a deluge. It is usually
due to the volume of water within a body of water, such as a river or lake, exceeding the
total capacity of the body, and as a result some of the water flows or sits outside of the
normal perimeter of the body.
Wildfire: Also known as forest fires, are uncontrolled fires burning in wild land areas.
Common causes include lightning, human carelessness, arson, volcano eruption, and
pyroclastic cloud from active volcano.
Drought: An extended period of months or years when a region suffers a severe
deficiency in its water supply. Generally, this occurs when a region receives consistently
below average rainfall.
Avalanche: Geophysical hazard involving a slide of a large snow or rock mass down
a mountainside, caused when a buildup of material is released down a slope, it is one of
the major dangers faced in the mountains in winter.
Landslide: Disaster involving elements of the ground, including rocks, trees, parts of
houses, and anything else which may happen to be swept up. They can be caused by an
earthquake, volcanic eruptions, or general instability in the surrounding land.