Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• look into: To investigate or try to discover the reasons for
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• setting off: To start a journey
• turn on
• due to: Because of; owing to
• deal with
• rise from the ashes: To recover or make a new start after a disaster or failure.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• essentially: Basically; (said when stating the basic facts)
• empathy: Understanding how other people feel/suffer
• devastating: To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
• scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
• potentially: That could happen or become reality
• climate: Typical weather conditions in a particular place
• metaphor: Imaginative use of words to reveal a similarity
• fundamental: Forming a necessary part, base, or core
• shift: To change in position or direction
• lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
• crust: Hard outer layer of something, e.g. the earth
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• sustain: To lengthen or continue to do something
• catastrophe: Very bad disaster causing much suffering, etc.
• dramatically: In a sudden or extreme manner
• excess: Amount that is more than necessary or over a limit
• population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
• core: To take out the central section of a fruit
• contemporary: Being modern, up -to-date, of this age
• expand: To make something larger in size, number, amount
• planet: One of the bodies that orbit the sun
• mass: Religious ceremony in some Christian churches
• civilization: A highly developed society
• destructive: Causing a very large amount of damage
• fossil: Plant or animal that became rock after many years
• fault: A failure or negative aspect of
• absence: State of not being present, or not existing
• unrealistic: Not seeing or interpreting things as they are
• grim: Being very serious or determined
• crop: Plants grown on a farm for food, e.g. corn or rice
• exceptionally: In an extremely and unusually good way
• totally: In a complete way; completely; absolutely
• ironic: Funny because it is the opposite of the truth
• destroy: To damage so badly that something no longer exists
• desert: To leave a place for ever; abandon
• century: Period of 100 years
• science: Study of the physical world, based on facts
• resource: Something that can be used profitably; asset
• harvest: Gathering crops from the fields; the crops
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• explode: To express an emotion in a sudden and loud way
• addict: Person who can’t control their overuse of a thing
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• mankind: All humans thought of as one group; humanity
• renewable: Being able to be replaced naturally
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• apocalyptic: Involving great disaster or destruction
• propulsion: Forward movement often under power
• interstellar: Being in the space between stars or star systems
• earth: Wire connecting an electrical device to the ground
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• line: Border that divides two places or regions
• warm: To become more friendly or to like something
• dissect: To cut up plant or body into pieces to examine it
• popcorn: Small-eared corn that burst in dry heat
• illegally: In a manner not allowed by law; criminally
• wade: Person's name
• prophetic: Having to do with correctly predicting the future
• okra: Long green edible pods of the okra plant
• southwest: Location in the southwestern part of an area