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Tema 2 Contexto 4 La ciencia y la tecnología p. 116-118
Lectura 4.1 La gran extinción que casi acabó con la vida en la Tierra
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el diario | newspaper |
Reino Unido | United Kingdom |
las capas de roca | layers of rock |
el calentamiento global | global warming |
la acidificación | acidification |
a fines de | at the end of |
la era Paleozoica | of, denoting, or relating to an era of geological time that began 600 million years ago with the Cambrian period and lasted about 375 million years until the end of the Permian period |
los titulares | headlines |
adivinar | to guess |
el desastre natural | natural disaster |
azotar | to batter, to devastate |
ocasionar | to cause |
la infraestructura | infrastructure |
las consecuencias | consequences |
tardar en + inf. | to delay (in doing something) |
la catástrofe | catastrophe, disaster |
la desaparición | disappearance |
la Tierra | Earth |
la mortandad | loss of life |
el Pérmico | geological period of approximately 300 million years ago |
el páramo | extremely cold, desolate land |
desierto/a | deserted |
despoblado/a | unpopulated |
los hongos | fungi, mushrooms |
apuntar | to point to, to make note of (to jot down) |
el rebote | rebound |
los nichos | niches |
vacío/a | vacant, empty |
la prosperidad | prosperity |
lento/a | slow |
alimentado/a | fed |
grave | serious, grave |
ambiental | environmental |
la lluvia ácida | acid rain |
la anoxia | almost a total lack of oxygen |
vivo/a | alive, living |
la faz | face |
notarse | to be noted |
el desequilibrio | unbalance |
casi continuo/a | almost continuous |
enlazado/a | connected, related, tied |
restablecerse | to reestablish (itself) |
la fuerza | strength |
estable | stable |
la crisis / las crisis | crisis / crises |
dejar de + inf. | to stop (doing something) |
los cangrejos | crabs |
las langostas | lobsters |
el réptil marino | marine reptile |
devastador/a | devastating |
el contador | meter |
sonar (ue) | to sound |
extrañamente | strangely |
la actualidad | currently, presently, at the moment |
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