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Effects Of Global Warming
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1.8 Definition of Terms
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Global warming:- The increase in temperature of the earth’s atmosphere,
that is caused by the increase of particular gases especially carbon
dioxide.
· Green House Gas Effect:- The problem of the
gradual rise in temperature of the earth’s atmosphere, caused by an
increase of gases such as carbon dioxide in the air surrounding the
earth, which trap the heat of the sun.
· Climate:- The synthesis of weather over 30yers at a particular time within a given location.
· Weather:- The state of the atmosphere at a particular point in time within a given location.
· Climate Change:- The alteration or variation of climate from its original state when studied for a long time.
· Environment:- The surrounding around man in space.
· Town:- Large settlement usually harbouring thousand of facilities.
· Urban Area:- Characteristics of a city.
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Rural Area:- An area normally called a village infrastructure-
foundation of a system to develop a place heads together.
· Community:- Body of people living in the same area.
· Temperature:- The degree of hotness or coldness of a human body.
· Relief:- The nature and terrain of a area.
· Development:- To increase or grow gradually.
· Growth:- An increase in the size, amount or degree of something.
· Gas:- Any substance like air that is neither a solid nor a liquid.
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Effect:- A change that something or somebody causes in something or
somebody else. It may be either positive or negative.
· Acid
Rain:- Rain that contains harmful chemicals from factory gasses and that
damages trees, crops, aquatic life and buildings.
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Pollutant:- They are undesirable by product of production and
consumption activities that are released into the environment causing
harm.
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