Matching Pairs Consolidate vocabularyOnline version Aprender vocabulario sobre el medio ambiente by Mari Carmen Lloret Pineda 1 Biodiversity 2 Ecosystem 3 Preservation 4 Climate change 5 Global warming 6 Contamination 7 Greenhouse effect 8 Activist the process of making something dirty, polluted, or poisonous by adding a chemical, waste, or infection all the plants and animals in a particular area, considered as a system with parts that depend on one another the variety of different types of plant and animal life in a particular region the changes that are thought to be affecting the world’s weather so that it is becoming warmer the process of making something dirty, polluted, or poisonous by adding a chemical, waste, or infection the process of working to protect something valuable so that it is not damaged or destroyed the process in which heat is unable to escape from the atmosphere and causes the temperature of the Earth to rise. an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.