Key learning points

1. Positive impacts on environments can include reforestation and recycling.
2. Reforestation is when forests are re-grown in areas that used to be populated by trees.
3. When we recycle, we collect and sort rubbish instead of throwing it away. These items get changed into something new.
4. Recycling and reusing objects can prevent rubbish going to landfill and having a negative effect on the environment.
5. Environmental scientists are constantly studying and finding ways to protect changing environments.

Keywords

• Reforestation - Reforestation is the act of planting trees on an area of land that has become empty or spoiled.

• Recycling - Recycling involves sorting and treating rubbish to produce useful materials that can be used again.

• Reuse - When we reuse something, we use it again.

• Landfill - Landfill is when we get rid of waste by burying it in the ground.

• Environmental scientist - An environmental scientist studies the impact that humans have had on the environment, and works to protect changing environments.

Common misconception