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‫In this vocabulary lesson, we're looking at essential language for the natural world, and here are

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‫our eight key pieces of vocabulary, beginning with environment.

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‫Forner.

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‫Climate.

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‫For Ed.

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‫Global warming.

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‫Diversity.

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‫Carnivore.

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‫Eco-System.

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‫And we'll start with environment, this word is often used to describe the world of living things and

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‫everything else that is around us, from trees to rocks to the oceans to everything that is our environment.

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‫We must learn to protect our environment and not harm other living things.

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‫A local school campaigned for more people to help protect the local environment.

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‫There's a few examples for environment and now we'll move on to fauna, fauna is almost a scientific

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‫word, but it is used in general to describe all types of plants, trees, leafy things, things that

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‫are found in fields, including mushrooms that is considered a fauna.

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‫The fauna in the South American rainforest is quite amazing.

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‫Tourism is damaging the fauna which leads to animals dying to.

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‫And here we have climate, which means the basically the weather, what kind of weather and how hot

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‫things are.

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‫Climate change is a huge issue facing our generation today, and I'm sure you can see I have highlighted

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‫climate change.

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‫I'm sure that you have heard this mentioned before, but climate change is an increasing global issue

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‫where the temperatures are rising around the world and we have problems with rising sea levels.

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‫Let's move on to the next example.

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‫The climate in Southeast Asia is mostly tropical and humid with monsoon seasons.

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‫OK, a predator, a predator is an animal that kills another animal for food.

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‫A predator will often stalk its prey for many hours before catching its food.

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‫Sharks are skilled apex predators that hunt for many ocean animals, an apex predator is an animal that

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‫does not have a natural predator itself.

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‫For example, many sharks, they do not have a predator that will kill them.

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‫Humans have no natural predator.

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‫So we are apex predators.

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‫We are at the very top of the predator ladder.

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‫OK, let's move on to our next word, which is the phrase global warming.

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‫Global warming is a scientific term about the world.

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‫Again, increasing in heat because we have used lots of natural gases and oils.

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‫We have also leaked a lot of pollution into our environment and atmosphere.

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‫This has led to global warming, which is the increasing of temperatures around the world similar to

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‫climate change, but not exactly the same.

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‫Due to the use of gas and oil, global warming has become a major global issue.

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‫You may have heard me say that phrase before global issue, a common collocation to talk about a problem

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‫facing the entire planet.

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‫If we act now, we can stop global warming by treating our planet with more respect.

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‫And here we have diversity.

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‫Diversity means many different types of something, so it can be used for a few different things.

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‫But in terms of the natural world, in diversity, we mean animals and living things that have slightly

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‫different characteristics, but often in the same species.

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‫For example, in humans, there is lots of diversity all the way from hair color to language to skin

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‫color and all those different kinds of things.

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‫The diversity of the animals living in North America is truly huge.

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‫Diversity is a good thing in a species as they will be stronger to changes in their environment, diversity.

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‫Next up, we have carnival, a carnival is an animal that eats meat.

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‫A lion, which is a carnivore, often eats zebras or other grassland animals.

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‫The opposite to a carnivore is a herbivore which does not eat any meat.

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‫I think that explains what a herbivore is.

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‫It's a vegetarian type animal.

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‫OK, next up, we have Eco-System.

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‫An ecosystem is a small part of an environment that supports life, for example, a small river can

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‫be an ecosystem.

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‫There are fish and other living things that live there.

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‫If an ecosystem is damaged, animals will not be able to find food, so that means that if, for example,

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‫grass is lost from a field, an ecosystem, there'll be no cows.

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‫They can't eat any grass.

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‫The ocean ecosystem is extremely diverse, with many animals and fauna such as seaweed.

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‫OK, here is our full list of eight essential pieces of language for the natural world.

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‫Do you practice using them?