1.3 Practice
Busca en la web o en el diccionario el significado de las siguientes palabras:
a) Deforestation
b) Afforestation
c) Reforestation
d) Ecosystem
e) Clear cutting
f) Forest degradation
g) Slash and burn
Respuestas
a) Volcanic eruptions: A volcanic eruption occurs when hot materials from the Earth's interior are thrown out of a volcano. Lava, rocks, dust, and gas compounds are some of these "ejecta"
b) Tornadoes: a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
c) Lightning: the occurrence of a natural electrical discharge of very short duration and high voltage between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud, accompanied by a bright flash and typically also thunder.
d) Tsunamis: a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance.
e) Hurricanes: A hurricane is a type of storm called a tropical cyclone, which forms over tropical or subtropical waters.
f) Earthquakes: is a term used to describe both sudden slip on a fault, and the resulting ground shaking and radiated seismic energy caused by the slip, or by volcanic or magmatic activity, or other sudden stress changes in the earth.
g) Landslides: is defined as the movement of a mass of rock, debris, or earth down a slope.