French Vocab Flash Cards

la consommation (modérée)

Sub O for U and -m and a

la lumière

Sounds like luminate; similar too

renouvelable

nouv-new

mondial(e)

Monde=world

surpeuplé

peuplé sounds like people; too many people means...

construire

Similar to construct, this means...

croire

disparaître

Swap the a and p around and + pear

le détritus

Sounds like detrius; an organism that decomposes...

la couche d'ozone

couche; go to be with a duvet layer

le trou d'ozone

Dig a...

le réchauffement de la terre

terre; terain
chaud=hot

l'effet de serre

Serre; serious
Links into global warming

le déboisement

de; getting rid of... trees

le gaz carbonique

gas;carbon

endommager

Sub O for a and -m and r

augmenter

Make the value go up means...

produire

Sub ir for c

l'embouteillage

waiting in a car is know as a...

les gaz d'échappement

excess gas from a car

les heures d'affluence

quickly go somewhere...

les ordures

odours come from bins and...

l'emballage

excess...

le charbon

carbon and charcol

ramasser

le tremblement de terre

tremble; terrain

l'incendie

hot flame

la vague

+W but -g and u and rearrange

la guerre

guerre; gun

la paix

sounds similar to...

détruire

de;troy

le pétrole

petrol is crude...

le problème

sounds like...

propre

"proper good..."

sauver

-u and r

protéger

pro=good

cultiver

cultivate crops means...

l'environnement

-n

les transports en commun

community is...

la zone (piétonne)

a path is a .... zone

la piste cyclable

cyclists use this

la circulation

... jam

pollué(e)

sounds similar to ...ed

sale

opposite to clean

sans plomb

type of petrol

recycler

you do this with cardboard boxes

jeter

... away

la poubelle

rubbish goes here