Environmental Terms: Go Green

• Focus on understanding the meaning and benefits of the terms, expanding your vocabulary, and studying connectors related to environmental topics.
• Aim to explore the concept of "going green."

Environmental Terms and Concepts

• Trash talk refers to negative or boastful language, can relate to waste management.
• Ecosystem is a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
• Biodiversity is the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
• Sustainability is the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level.
• Climate Change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
• Carbon Footprint is the total greenhouse gas emissions caused by an individual, event, organization, or product, expressed as carbon dioxide equivalent.
• Pollution is the presence or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects.
• Deforestation refers to the clearing of forests for other land uses.
• Greenhouse Gas is a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation.
• Conservation is preservation, protection, or restoration of the natural environment, natural ecosystems, vegetation, and wildlife.
• Habitat is the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
• Recycling converts waste materials into new materials and objects.
• Upcycling creates objects of higher value from waste materials.
• Composting decomposes organic waste into fertilizer.
• Landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial.
• Biodegradable is capable of being decomposed by bacteria or other living organisms.
• Waste Sorting separates waste into different categories for recycling or disposal.
• Single-Use Plastic is intended to be used once and then discarded.
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle encourages to minimize waste generation and maximize resource use.
• Pollution Prevention eliminates or reduces pollution at the source.
• Circular Economy is a model of production and consumption, which involves sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing, and recycling existing materials and products as long as possible.
• Renewable Energy comes from naturally replenished sources, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat.
• Solar Panels convert sunlight into electricity.
• Wind Turbines convert wind energy into electricity.
• Electric Vehicle (EV) is powered by electricity rather than a gasoline engine.
• Energy Efficiency uses less energy to perform the same task or produce the same result.
• Upcycle transforms waste materials into new products of better quality or environmental value.
• Downcycle transforms waste materials into new products of lesser quality.
• "Waste not, want not" is a proverb advising against wastefulness.
• Eco-warrior is an activist who actively campaigns to protect the environment.
• Junk into funk transforms trash into something desirable.
• Recycle that Idea encourages creative thinking to reuse old concepts.
• Trash to Treasure transforms unwanted items into valuable objects.
• Bin It encourages proper disposal of waste materials.
• "Plastic-free is the way to be" advocates for reducing plastic consumption.
• Sustainable Swag refers to environmentally friendly promotional items.

Comprehension and Composition

• The request is to provide text for analysis in a reading comprehension exercise.
• The request is for resources to write paragraphs using connectors, and understand words and slangs related to recycling.

Listening Skills

• A listening exercise requires audio content to write about with a set of choices.