Unit 1 Vocabulary

Easy to find everywhere

Hard to find; not enough of something

A type of material

Something that grows back quickly

It is becoming poor

It is growing and doing well

It is losing resources

Is it stopping all trade.

Wasting resources on purpose

Taking care of and protecting natural resources

Finding new resources to use up

A process of making more money

You read about it in a book

You saw it on TV

You came across it unexectedly

You looked for it on purpose

It stayed the same

It was not touched at all

It was changed or affected by something

It was destroyed completely

A wild guess

A careful study of something to understand it

A short story

A tool for building things

To ignore it

To copy it without credit

To give credit by mentioning where information came from

To erase information

A teacher's opinion

Numbers and facts collected during an experiment

A story someone wrote

A picture of a tree

Making a decision by using facts and evidence

Deciding without thinking

Listening to a story

Writing a list of rules

Coal

Oil

Trees

Natural gas

Sunlight

Water

Coal

Trees

The clean air we breathe

Waste or harmful materials that make the environment dirty

The protection of forests

Energy from the sun