Natural resources-Solid Waste and Pollution

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Human Population

Number of living people on Earth

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Landfills

Areas where trash is buried in the ground

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Incinerator

Areas where garbage is burned

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Toxic wastes

Substances that can damage living things

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Pollution

Anything in the environment harmful to living things

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greenhouse effect

Trapping heat inside a greenhouse

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Global warming

The increase in temperatures around the world

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Ozone layer

Keeps most ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun from reaching earth

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Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

usage of this is believed to cause the ozone layer to thin

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Acid rain

Made when fossil fuel chemicals combine with water vapor and return to earth

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Groundwater

Water that collects in cracks below earth’s surface