‫In this vocabulary lesson, we're looking at essential language for the natural world, and here are
‫our eight key pieces of vocabulary, beginning with environment.
‫Forner.
‫Climate.
‫For Ed.
‫Global warming.
‫Diversity.
‫Carnivore.
‫Eco-System.
‫And we'll start with environment, this word is often used to describe the world of living things and
‫everything else that is around us, from trees to rocks to the oceans to everything that is our environment.
‫We must learn to protect our environment and not harm other living things.
‫A local school campaigned for more people to help protect the local environment.
‫There's a few examples for environment and now we'll move on to fauna, fauna is almost a scientific
‫word, but it is used in general to describe all types of plants, trees, leafy things, things that
‫are found in fields, including mushrooms that is considered a fauna.
‫The fauna in the South American rainforest is quite amazing.
‫Tourism is damaging the fauna which leads to animals dying to.
‫And here we have climate, which means the basically the weather, what kind of weather and how hot
‫things are.
‫Climate change is a huge issue facing our generation today, and I'm sure you can see I have highlighted
‫climate change.
‫I'm sure that you have heard this mentioned before, but climate change is an increasing global issue
‫where the temperatures are rising around the world and we have problems with rising sea levels.
‫Let's move on to the next example.
‫The climate in Southeast Asia is mostly tropical and humid with monsoon seasons.
‫OK, a predator, a predator is an animal that kills another animal for food.
‫A predator will often stalk its prey for many hours before catching its food.
‫Sharks are skilled apex predators that hunt for many ocean animals, an apex predator is an animal that
‫does not have a natural predator itself.
‫For example, many sharks, they do not have a predator that will kill them.
‫Humans have no natural predator.
‫So we are apex predators.
‫We are at the very top of the predator ladder.
‫OK, let's move on to our next word, which is the phrase global warming.
‫Global warming is a scientific term about the world.
‫Again, increasing in heat because we have used lots of natural gases and oils.
‫We have also leaked a lot of pollution into our environment and atmosphere.
‫This has led to global warming, which is the increasing of temperatures around the world similar to
‫climate change, but not exactly the same.
‫Due to the use of gas and oil, global warming has become a major global issue.
‫You may have heard me say that phrase before global issue, a common collocation to talk about a problem
‫facing the entire planet.
‫If we act now, we can stop global warming by treating our planet with more respect.
‫And here we have diversity.
‫Diversity means many different types of something, so it can be used for a few different things.
‫But in terms of the natural world, in diversity, we mean animals and living things that have slightly
‫different characteristics, but often in the same species.
‫For example, in humans, there is lots of diversity all the way from hair color to language to skin
‫color and all those different kinds of things.
‫The diversity of the animals living in North America is truly huge.
‫Diversity is a good thing in a species as they will be stronger to changes in their environment, diversity.
‫Next up, we have carnival, a carnival is an animal that eats meat.
‫A lion, which is a carnivore, often eats zebras or other grassland animals.
‫The opposite to a carnivore is a herbivore which does not eat any meat.
‫I think that explains what a herbivore is.
‫It's a vegetarian type animal.
‫OK, next up, we have Eco-System.
‫An ecosystem is a small part of an environment that supports life, for example, a small river can
‫be an ecosystem.
‫There are fish and other living things that live there.
‫If an ecosystem is damaged, animals will not be able to find food, so that means that if, for example,
‫grass is lost from a field, an ecosystem, there'll be no cows.
‫They can't eat any grass.
‫The ocean ecosystem is extremely diverse, with many animals and fauna such as seaweed.
‫OK, here is our full list of eight essential pieces of language for the natural world.
‫Do you practice using them?