- Natural Disasters:
Rain which contains large amounts of harmful chemicals as a result of burning substances such as coal and oil.
-Drought:
A long period when there is little or no rain.
-Flood:
A large amount of water covering an area that is usually dry.
-Earthquake:
A sudden violent movement of the Earth's surface, sometimes causing great damage.
-Global Warming:
A gradual increase in world temperatures caused by polluting gases such as carbon dioxide which are collecting in the air around the Earth and preventing heat escaping into space.
-Greenhouse Effect:
An increase in the amount of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere which is believed to be the cause of a gradual warming of the surface of the Earth.
-Oil Slick:
A layer of oil that is floating over a large area of the surface of the sea, usually because an accident has caused it to escape from a ship or container.
-Ozone Layer:
A layer of air high above the Earth, which contains a lot of ozone, and which prevents harmful ultraviolet light from the sun from reaching the Earth.
Scientists believe that there is a hole in the ozone layer.
-Pollution:
Damage caused to water, air.... by harmful substances or waste.
-Tsunami:
An extremely large wave caused by movement of the earth under the sea, often caused by an earthquake.
- Geography:
-Canyon: deep valley with steep sides.
-Cliff: a high, stepp rock face.
-Coast: the land next to the sea.
-Desert: a hot, dry, sandy region with little or no rain or water.
-Forest: a large area of land covered with trees and underbrush.
-Glacier: an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and gathering over years and moving very slowly.
-Hill: a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
-Lagoon: an area of shallow water separated from the sea by sandy dunes or coral reefs.
-Island: an area of land completely surrounded by water but not large enough to be called a continent.
-Iceberg: a large floating mass of ice.
-Lake: a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land.
-Marsh: an area of waterlogged soil covered with tall grasses.
-Mountain: a natural high piece of land rising more or less quickly to a high point.
-Ocean: the vast body of salt water that covers almost three-fourths of the earth's surface.
-Precipice: a cliff with a steep or overhanging face.
-River; a natural stream of water flowing in a definite course.
-Shore: the land along the edge of a sea, lake, broad river, etc.
-Valley:a long, narrow area that is lower than surrounding uplands, hills or mountains.
-Wood: hard, fiberlike substance that makes up most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub beneath the bark.
- Idioms Related to Nature:
-A breath of fresh air: new or fresh imaginative approach, a change that feels good.
-Add fuel to the fire: to make a problem or a situation worse.
-Always chasing rainbows: to try to do something that you will never achieve.
-Be dead in the water: said when something has no chance or of making any progress.
-Be deep in water: to be in serious trouble.
-Be in hot water: to be in a difficult situation.
-Be in the land of the living: be awake or to be alive.
-Beat around the bush: to treat a topic without mentioning it directly because the topic is difficult or unpleasant.
-Calm before the storm: it is an unussual or false quiet period before a period of upheaval.
-Castles in the air: plans that are unlikely to happen.
-Come under fire: to be subject of criticsm.
-Get into deep water:to be in trouble.
-It's a jungle out there: it refers to a threatening environment where it is difficult to survive.
-Drop in the bucket: something that has no importance comparing with something bigger.
-Come into bloom: to blossom, to start to produce flowers.
-Greener pastures: it refers to a more promising situation.
-Make a mountain out of a molehill: to exagerate the severity of a situation.
-Make waves: to cause troubles.
-Not hold water: it is said when an explanation, reason or argument is not strong or logical.
-Sail against the wind: to work to achieve something that is difficult because most people'd oppose it.
-Under the sun: in existence.
-Vale of tears: the world considered as sad and harsh.
-Storm is brewing: it means that there is going to be trouble or emotional upset in the near future.
-When it rain, it pours: it is said when bad things occur in large numbers.
-Walk on air: very excited or happy about something.
- Useful Verbs:
-Harm: to cause injury or damage. To hurt.
-Endanger: to expose to danger .
-Impact: to have an impact or effect on something.
-Contaminate: to make impure, harmful, or unusable by contact or mixture with something unclean; pollute.
-Threat: a sign, warning of trouble or danger.
-Clear cut or chop down: to remove trees from a forest.
-Fertilize; treat plants and green spaces with special chemicals that helps them to grow.
-Preserve: keep in it's natural state.
-Protect: keep from harm.
-Recycle: to take materials from garbage and form it into something new that can be used.
-Reduce: use less.
-Use up: use until there is no more.
Natural Idioms
Natural verbs
-Preserve: keep in it's natural state.
-Protect: keep from harm.
-Recycle: to take materials from garbage and form it into something new that can be used.
-Reduce: use less.
-Use up: use until there is no more.
Natural Idioms
Natural verbs
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