4th 5th grade academic team
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- ACTIVISM
- THE PROCESS OF TAKING DIRECT ACTION IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE A DESIRED ENVIRONMENTAL, POLITICAL OR SOCIAL END.
- aCTIVIST
- AN INDIVIDUAL WHO ENGAGES IN ACTIVISM.
- ATMOSPHERE
- THE GASEOUS MASS THAT SURROUNDS THE EARTH.
- CARBON DIOXIDE
- A COLORLESS AND ODORLESS GAS, FORMED DURING RESPIRATION AND COMBUSTION, THAT CONTRIBUTES TO THE PROCESS OF GLOBAL WARMING.
- CATASTROPHE
- A MAJOR, TYPICALLY SUDDEN CALAMITY
- CATASTROPHIC WATER SUPPLY LEVELS
- WATER SUPPLY LEVELS SO LOW THEY ARE UNLIKELY TO SUSTAIN THEIR SURROUNDING POPULATIONS IN TIMES OF DROUGHT
- CLIMATE
- THE PREVAILING METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF THE EARTH, INCLUDING GLOBAL TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION.
- CLIMATE CHANGE
- CHANGES TO THE EARTH'S CLIMATE, INCLUDING GLOBAL WARMING, THAT MAY ULTIMATELY PR4OVE HARMFUL TO HUMANS AND OTHER LIVING BEINGS.
- CLIMATE THREAT
- THE THREAT POSED TO HUMANS, LIVING CREATURES ADN THE EARTH AS A RESULT OF CLIMATE CHANGE.
- CLIMATOLOGISTS
- SCIENTISTS WHO SPECIALIZE IN STUDYING CLIMATE CHANGE.
- COMBAT
- TO CONTEND WITH OR FIGHT AGAINST.
- DROUGHT
- A PROLONGED AND SERIOUS SHORTAGE OF WATER AND/OR RAIN.
- ELECTRIC CAR
- AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT AUTOMOBILE THT RUNS ON ELECTRICITY.
- EMISSIONS
- SUBSTANCES, SUCH AS POLLUTANTS, THAT ARE RELEASED INTO THE ATMOSPHERE.
- ENDANGERED SPECIES
- ANY SPECIES OF FISH, PLANT OR ANIMAL THAT IS IN IMMEDIATE DANGER OF BECOMING EXTINCT.