GEOGRAPHY? WHAT'S THAT? UNIT 2.

• ACID RAIN:  precipitation that contains a high concentration of pollutants released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal or oil.
• CLIMATE CHANGE: natural process by which it produces a large variation in the average temperature of a region.
• DECIDIOUS FOREST:  a kind of large group of trees that lose all their leaves in autumn.
• DEFORESTATION: clearing of trees of a forest usually produced by human activity such as logging or fire.
• DESERT:  an area of land that receives less than 250 mm of rain per year and can be hot, cold or polar.
• DROUGHT: a prolonged period of scanty rainfall.
• EVERGREEN FOREST: a kind of large group of trees that keep all their leaves in every season of the year.
• FLOOD: the inundation of land that is normally dry through the overflowing of a body of water.
• GRASSLAND:  land, such as a prairie, on which grass predominates.
• GREENHOUSE EFFECTS: process by which it produces a raising temperature because of the disappearing of the ozon layer.
• HOLM OAK TREE: an evergreen Mediterranean oak tree, widely planted for ornament.
• HURRICANE: a destructive storm or tropical cyclone.
• JUNGLE: an area with lush vegetation and high rainfall with an equatorial climate.
• LIVESTOCK: domestic animals raised on farms.
• LOGGING: the work of felling trees and transporting the logs for sale.
• MEADOW: an area of grassland.
• OASIS: a small area in a desert with water and vegetation.
• RIPARIAN FOREST: a kind of large group of trees that are close to a river and are water by it.
• PRECIPITATION: a form of water (rain, snow, etc.) that falls to Earth’s surface.
• SANDSTORM: a strong wind that whips up clouds of sand, especially in a desert.
• SAVANNAH: a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions.
• SCRUB: low trees or shrubs that grow in areas with little rain.
• SEA LEVEL RISING: increasing of the sea level by melting the Artcic and Andarctic ice-cap due to the action of the climate change.
• SETTLEMENT: a place where people have gone to live and where no or few people lived before.
• STEPPE: a grassy plain usually without trees.
• TAIGA: the forests located in the Earth’s northern regions consisting of evergreen trees.
• TEMPERATURE: the degree of hotness of a body, substance, medium or place.
• TORNADO: a violent storm usually characterized by a dark funnel-shaped cloud causind damage along its path.
• TSUNAMI: a large, often destructive, sea wave produced by a submarine erthquake or volcanic eruption.
• TUNDRA: the vast, treeless area in the Arctic regions with low-growing vegetation such as lichens and mosses.