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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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| A | B |
| 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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