Word List Earth Day 607 words

Earth Day Vocabulary Word List (607)

• A

  absorption, abundance, access, accessibility, accommodate, acid, acid-rain, activist, adaptation, admire, admonition, advocacy, advocate, agent, agriculture, alternatives, altitude, Amazon, announcement, anticipation, anxiety, APATHETIC, apogee, appreciation, aquatic, aquifer, archipelago, asteroid, astronomer, astronomy, atmosphere, attraction, audience, awareness, awesome

• B

  backlash, bacteria, balance, barren, beach, beachfront, benefit, bio-diesel, biodegradable, biodiversity, biota, blight, bog, boost, BOTANICAL, boundary, bountiful, breeze, brilliant, bug, buoyancy, buzz

• C

  calamity, canyon, capacity, carbon dioxide, catastrophe, category, celebration, celestial, cepheids, ceremony, chemicals, chemistry, choked, clean-up, climate, coastal, color, combustible, commercial, commercialism, commitment, community, condensation, conference, confidence, conflagration, confluence, conservation, conserve, conspicuous, consume, consumption, contamination, contiguous, continent, continental crust, contribution, conviction, corrosion, county, crater, creation, creature, crops, crowd, crucial, crust, culture, curb, current, cyclone, cynicism

• D

  dam, damage, decline, decompose, DEFOLIATE, deforestation, deft, demise, density, denude, DEPLETE, deplorable, deposits, desert, destructive, detection, devastation, development, diesel, difference, dike, direction, disaster, discharge, discovery, disease, disposable, diversity, documentary, domination, dramatize, drench, drilling, drought, dumping, dunes, dust, dynamic

• E

  earth, earthquake, ecological, ECOLOGY, ecosystem, eddy, efficiency, effluent, elation, electrifying, elimination, emissions, emotion(al), encroach, ENDANGERED, endemic, energy, enigmatic, enthusiasm, environment, environs, envision, epicenter, eradicate, erode, erosion, eruption, esker, estuary, euphoria, euthenics, evaporation, evergreen, evidence, evolution, exclusive, exhaustion, expanse, experience, exploration, extinction, extreme

• F

  failure, fallow, falls, famine, fault, FAUNA, feature, fertile, fibrous, fields, fierce, filter, fire, fire-break, fisheries, flood, flood waters, flora, FLOURISH, flow, fluorescence, food chain, forecast, forestry, fossil fuels, fracas, fresh air, frigid, fumigation, funnel cloud, fuss

• G

  galaxy, gallons, galvanize, gander, gases, geothermal, germs, girdle, glacier, global, global warming, grasslands, gravity, greed, greenhouse effect, groundwater, groves, guideline, gust

• H

  habitat, harbor, harvest, hatred, hazard, haze, herbicide, high-risk, hillside, homeless, hubbub, humanity, humidity, hurricane, hydroelectric, hydrology, hydroponic, hydrosphere, hygiene

• I

  ice, impact, improvements, incineration, indigenous, industry, infect, influence, inhabit, inhabitant, initiative, inquiry, insects, insight, inspiration, insulation, intense, interference, inundation, invade, inversion, investigation, irrigation

• J

  journalists

• K

  keen

• L

  lagoon, land form, land trust, landmark, landscape, layer, lease, litter, logging

• M

  magical, magnificence, magnificent, mammal, management, marine, maritime, marsh, maximization, meadow, measurement, members, mercury, metamorphosis, meteor, methane, microbes, migration, migratory, mildew, monsoon, moon, moratorium, morphology, mortality, motion, mountains, movement, mulch

• N

  nascent, national, native, natural, nature, navigable, nebula, neglect, nesting, nitrogen, nontoxic, nostalgia, nova, nuclear, nutrients

• O

  obliterate, observance, ocean, official, onslaught, ooze, opposition, organic, organism, organization, original, overlook, overpopulation, OZONE

• P

  panel, parasite, parkland, passionate, peninsula, peril, permutation, perpetual, pesticide, pests, petrify, petroleum, photovoltaic cells, piedmont, pinnacle, plague, planet, plankton, plants, plot, poison, pole, pollutant, pollute, pollution, popular, popularity, powerful, prairie, precipitation, predator, predict, prehistoric, preservation, preserve, pressure, pride, primeval, pristine, prize, proclaim, prognosis, program, progress, projection, propagation, property, prosperity, protean, protection, protest, public, pumping station

• Q

  quake, quality, quantity, quasar, quest, quiet

• R

  radioactive, rainwater, recipient, reclamation, recognition, record, rectify, recycle, redwoods, reeds, reefs, refuge, reliance, remains, renewable, replica, repository, reproduction, rescue, reserves, reservoir, resilience, resolve, respect, restoration, retrogression, reusable, REVITALIZE, revival, ridge, rights, risk, role, rot, rubble, ruin, rupture

• S

  safety, salinity, salt flats, salute, salvage, sand, sandbar, sanitation, savanna, scars, science, scientist, scrap, sea, seafloor, sediment, seismic, sentiment, sewage, shallows, shelter, shore, shortages, skepticism, slide, smog, smoke, smolder, solar, solstice, soluble, sonar, source, space, spatial, species, spectra, speculation, speech, spelunking, spew, spiel, splendid, sponges, spotlight, sprawl, spring, squatters, staples, starvation, staunch, stewardship, storm, stress, stunning, success, sulfur, sun, sunlight, supplies, support, surface, survival, survive, SUSTAINABLE, swamp, SYMBIOSIS, symptoms, synergy

• T

  taint, task, technology, tectonic plate, temperate, temperature, tempest, tension, terrain, terrestrial, thicket, thrive, tidal pool, tides, timber, toil, topography, tornado, toxic, toxin, tract, traffic, treatment, tremor, trespass, tributary, tribute, triumph, tropical, trumpet, tsunami, tundra, twister, typhoon

• U

  ultimate, ultraviolet rays, underwater, undeveloped, unique, uplifting, uproot

• V

  valley, vanish, vapor, vegetation, velocity, ventilation, venue, versatile, vested interest, vigilance, violation, virus, visible, vision, vista, volatile, volcanoes, volunteers, vulnerable

• W

  wallow, waste, watching, water, waterfall, watershed, waterspout, waterway, weather, weeds, wells, wetlands, whirlwind, whitecaps, whitewater, wilderness, wildfire, wildlife, wind, wind power, winner, world, world-class, worldwide, wreck

• X

  xeriscape

• Y

  yield

• Z

  zealot, zealous, zenith, zero-tolerance, zone