1. Europe’s Environmental Issues
Vocabulary List #3
Europe’s Environmental Issues

2. Europe has 3 environmental issues:
Air Pollution in United Kingdom
Acid Rain in Germany
Nuclear explosion in Ukraine

3. Environment
The surroundings or condition in which a person, animal or plant lives or operates

4. pollution Emissions Waste that makes the air, soil or water less clean
The act of producing or sending out something, such as energy or gas, from a source
Emissions

5. Renewable vs. nonrenewable resources
Resource that earth or people can replace
Non-renewable resources
Resource that cannot be replaced in a relatively short period of time.

6. hydroelectricity Hydroelectricity Video
Generating electricity using water driven turbines.
Hydroelectricity Video

7. Fossil fuel
Non-renewable resource formed over millions of years from the remains of ancient plants and animals.

8. AIR pollution in united kingdom
Smog – air pollution caused by sunlight acting on the gases from automobiles and factory exhaust
Smokeless zones – areas of London where, in order to improve air quality, only smokeless fuels can be used.

9. Acid rain in Germany
Acid Rain – clouds or rain containing sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxide that cause problems in the environment.
Deforestation – the process of clearing forests, selling the timber, and using the cleared land for other purposes

10. Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine
Chernobyl – the Ukrainian site of a nuclear power plant that exploded in April releasing radiation into the environment.
Nuclear energy – energy that exists in atoms produced by splitting or fusion of the nuclei; produces cheaper energy without filling the air with pollution and using the Earth’s supply of fossil fuels

11. Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine
Radiation – particles or waves emitted by atoms and molecules of a radioactive substance as a result of atomic decay; it can be harmful to living tissue.
Exclusion Zone – a restricted 30 mile area around the Chernobyl power station that was abandoned by humans due to a toxic level of radiation

12. Other videos: Acid Rain - Germany Acid Rain Formation
Air Pollution - Smog Alert in UK
Chernobyl - Drone footage