La Pollution Flashcards by Leighvi Pilcher | Brainscape

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Les polluants

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Pollutants

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Jetable

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Disposable

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Toxique

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Poisonous

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La centrale thermique

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Power station

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Les décharges industrielles

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Industrial waste

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Les émissions de gaz carbonique

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Discharge of carbon gas

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Les gaz d’échappement

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Exhaust fumes

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Le dioxyde de carbone

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Carbon dioxide

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Se diffuser

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To spread

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Les métaux lourds

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Heavy metals

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Les ordures ménagères

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Household waste

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Les eaux usées

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Sewage

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Les déchets urbains

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Rubbish from towns

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Les déchets industrielles

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Industrial waste

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Le gaz à effet de serre

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Greenhouse gas

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Le système réfrigérant

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Refrigeration system

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Les chloroflurocarbones

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CFC gases

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Le pesticide

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Pesticide

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La vidnage des pétroliers

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Draining of oil tankers

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La marée noire

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Oil spill/slick

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Se déverser dans la mer

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To flow into the sea

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Les retombées

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The consequences

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Contaminer

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To contaminate

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Les dégâts

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Damage

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Les effets néfastes

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Harmful effects

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La nocivité de qqch.

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Harmful nature of something

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Stériliser le sol

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To make the Earth sterile

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Avoir un effet dévastateur

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To have a devastating effect

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Le seuil catastrophe

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Disaster level

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Malodorant(e)

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Smelly

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L’air irrespirable

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Unbreathable air

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La dégradation de l’eau

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Deterioration of water

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La dégradation des sols

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Deterioration of soil

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Dégrader le milieu naturel

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To damage the natural environment

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Enlaidir la nature

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To ruin the landscape

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La chaîne alimentaire

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Food chain

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L’effet de serre

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Greenhouse effect

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Arriver au seuil de saturation

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To reach saturation point

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Dépasser le seuil

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To go beyond the point

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Les pluies acides

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Acid rain

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Le dépérissement des forêts

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Dying off of forests

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Les malformations génétiques

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Genetic disorders

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Les changements climatiques

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Climate change

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Selon les climatologues

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According to climatologists

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Le réchauffement de la planète

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Global warming

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La hausse généralisée de la température

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General rise in temperature

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Le trou dans la couche d’ozone

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Hole in the ozone layer

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La sécheresse

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Drought

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La canicule

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Heatwave

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La désertification

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Turning into desert

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La fonte des calottes polaires

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Melting of polar ice caps

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Faire monter le niveau des océans

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To cause a rise in sea-levels

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L’ouragan

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Hurricane

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La tornade

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Tornado

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La trombe

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Whirlwind

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L’inondation

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Flood

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Le raz-de-marée

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Tidal wave