My Environmental

Glossary.

Do you know these words..?

1. Nature: the phenomena of the physical world

collectively, including plants, animals, and

landscape, as opposed to human or human

creations.

2. Environment: the surroundings of conditions in which

a person, animal, or plants lives or operates.

3. Decompose: break down into component elements.

4. Glass: a hard, brittle substance, typically transparent

or translucent, made by fusing sand with soda and

lime at the same time.

5. Plastic: material of a wide range of synthetic or

semi-synthetic organic solids used in the

manufacture of industrial products.

6. Pollution: is the introduction of contaminants into an

environment that causes instability, disorder, harm,

or discomfort to the ecosystem.

7. Ozone: is one of the greenhouse gases in the

atmosphere.

8. Greenhouse Effect: warming that result from solar

radiation is trapped by the atmosphere; caused by

atmospheric gases that allow sunshine to pass through

but absorb.

9. Biodegradable: product or substance that can be

broken down into natural chemical elements by the

action of biological agents.

10. Carpooling: is the shared use of a car by the driver

and more or more.

11. Organic: noting or pertaining to a class of

chemical compounds that formerly comprised only

those existing in or derived from plants or animals.

12. Inorganic: relating or belonging to the class

compounds not having a carbon basis.

13. Collect: to gather.

14. Renew: to restore or replenish.

15. Iron: a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic

element, scarcely known in pure condition, but much

used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms

for making tools, implements, machinery, etc.

16. Aluminum: a silver-white metallic element, light in

weight, ductile, malleable, and not readily corroded

or tarnished, occurring combined in nature of igneous

rock, shale, clay, and most soil.

17. Compost: a mixture of various decaying organic

substances, as dead leaves or manure, used for

fertilizing soil.

18. Recycle: to treat or process (used and waste

materials) so as to make suitable for reuse.

19. Reuse: is to use an item more than once.

20. Reduce: to lower down so it is a smaller amount or

number.