GLOBAL WARMING

1. SOLUTIONS

1.1. Reusing and recycling glass, plastic, paper and other products

1.2. Reducing use of paper products

1.3. Using green methods of transport: ride a bicycle or just walk

1.4. plating trees or plants wherever they can grow

1.5. Cutting down the energy use

2. NEW WORDS

2.1. catastrophic (adj): disastrous

2.2. famine (n): when a lot of people do not have enough food and many die

2.3. absorb (v): take in (gas, liquid, heat) from the space or surface around

2.4. diversity (n): the fact of having many different types of people, animals, plants or things

3. CAUSES

3.1. Cacbon dioxide emissons

3.2. Deforestation for farmland wood and paper

3.3. The increasing use of chemical fertilisers on croplands

4. EFFECTS

4.1. Heat-related illness and death, and spread of infectious disease

4.2. People losing home

4.3. Extreme weather patterns such as floods and droughts

4.4. Widespread extinction of species

4.5. Water and food shortages