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Nature and the environment — 自然と環境

Climate, disaster, pollution and the landscape words of a news report. Read each word aloud with its reading, then write it once on the line — in kana if you cannot yet write the kanji.

きこう noun

気候 climate

おんだんか noun

温暖化 global warming

おせん noun

汚染 pollution

こうがい noun

公害 environmental pollution

さいがい noun

災害 disaster

つなみ noun

津波 tsunami

ふんか noun

噴火 volcanic eruption

こうずい noun

洪水 flood

かんばつ noun

干ばつ drought

たいき noun

大気 the atmosphere

さんそ noun

酸素 oxygen

ちきゅう noun

地球 the Earth

うちゅう noun

宇宙 space, the universe

さばく noun

砂漠 desert

きし noun

岸 shore, bank

なみ noun

波 wave

たに noun

谷 valley

みね noun

峰 peak

いわ noun

岩 rock, boulder

どろ noun

泥 mud

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Vocabulary N3 · set 11 of 60 · 2 / 2 · recall

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Nature and the environment — from memory

Cover page 1. Write the Japanese for each meaning (kana is fine), then write what each word in part 2 means. Page 1 is the answer key.

1 Write the Japanese

valley

noun

peak

noun

volcanic eruption

noun

drought

noun

climate

noun

rock, boulder

noun

desert

noun

the Earth

noun

global warming

noun

the atmosphere

noun

2 What does it mean?

泥

汚染

津波

洪水

宇宙

災害

岸

波

公害

酸素

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