Environment & Ecology

Conservation, pollution, resources, habitats, and ecological systems.

60 words

# Environment & Ecology

**Type:** Topic
**Words:** 60

## About
Conservation, pollution, resources, habitats, and ecological systems.

## Words by Level

### A1
- garbage - Things you throw away because they are no longer wanted; waste.

### A2
- pollution - The harmful contamination of the air, water, or land with dirty or dangerous substances.
- natural - Existing in nature and not made or caused by people.
- recycle - To process used materials so they can be made into something new.
- environment - The natural world of land, air, water, plants, and animals.

### B1
- waste - To use time, money, or resources badly so that they are lost or have no useful result.
- refuse - To say firmly that you will not do something.
- bin - A container for rubbish or waste.
- climate - The usual weather conditions of an area over a long period of time.
- organic - Grown or produced without artificial chemicals, fertilizers, or pesticides.
- wildlife - Wild animals and plants living in their natural surroundings.
- habitat - The natural place where a plant or animal lives.
- resource - A supply of money, materials, people, or other things that can be used when needed.
- recycling - The process of treating used materials so they can be used again.
- conservation - The protection of the environment and natural resources.
- ecosystem - All the living things in an area and the way they affect each other and their environment.
- ecological - Relating to the relationships between living things and their environment.
- ecology - The study of the relationships between living things and their environment.
- environmentalist - A person who works to protect the natural environment from harm and pollution.
- erosion - the gradual wearing away of soil, rock, or another surface by water, wind, ice, or chemical action

### B2
- carbon - A chemical element (symbol C) found in all living things, and in forms such as graphite and diamond.
- emission - A gas or substance released into the air, especially a polluting one.
- environmentally - In a way that affects or relates to the natural environment.
- ecologist - A scientist who studies the relationships between living things and their environment.
- antipollution - Intended to reduce or prevent pollution.
- carbon dioxide
- carbon footprint
- carbon monoxide
- naturalized - introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation
- footprint - a mark or impression left by a foot or shoe
- sewage - wastewater and solid waste carried away from homes and other buildings through sewers

### C1
- conserve - To use something carefully so that it is not wasted or used up.
- sustainable - Able to continue for a long time without harming the environment or using up resources.
- infest - of pests or parasites, to occupy a place or host in harmful or troublesome numbers
- amphibious - able to live, move, or operate both on land and in water

### C2
- ecotourism - Responsible travel to natural areas that protects the environment and supports local people.
- carbonize - To turn something into carbon by heating it, leaving it scorched or blackened.
- denude - formal: to strip land or another surface of its natural covering
- algal - relating to, consisting of, or resembling algae
- intertidal - relating to the part of a shore covered at high tide and exposed at low tide
- wildfire - a large, uncontrolled fire that spreads rapidly through vegetation or wild land
- leach - to remove soluble substances from a material by passing liquid through it
- usnea - any branching gray-green or yellowish lichen of the genus Usnea, often hanging from trees
- pelagic - living, occurring, or carried in the open sea away from the coast or seabed
- mangrove - a tropical or subtropical tree or shrub adapted to grow in salty or brackish coastal water, often with exposed supporting roots
- alga - one of a diverse group of chiefly aquatic photosynthetic organisms, ranging from microscopic single cells to large seaweeds and lacking the organs of land plants

### C2+
- contamination - the act or state of making something impure or polluted
- taint - to contaminate or corrupt; a trace of contamination
- conservationist - a person who advocates protection of the environment and wildlife
- ecologic - relating to ecology or the relationship of organisms to their environment
- environmentalism - concern for and advocacy of the protection of the natural environment
- hothouse - a heated greenhouse for growing delicate plants; a forcing environment
- matrix - an environment in which something develops; a rectangular array of numbers
- acclimatize - to become accustomed to a new climate or environment
- adaptedness - the state of being well suited to an environment or purpose
- autotype - a photographic carbon printing process, or a facsimile so produced
- charcoal - a black porous form of carbon made by heating wood without air
- chokedamp - suffocating carbon-dioxide-laden air in a mine
- co-adaptation - mutual or coordinated adaptation between species, organs, traits, or genes
- nullipore - historical biology: a lime-secreting coralline alga, formerly classified among animals or treated as a distinct group of simple sea plants

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B1 (15) Pro

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