1.

Bioengineering
T the use of biochemical processes on an industrial scale to produce drugs and foodstuffs or to recycle
waste

2. climate change
a long-term alteration in global weather patterns, occurring naturally, as in a glacial or post-glacial
period, or as a result of atmospheric pollution (NOTE: Sometimes climate change is used
interchangeably with ‘global warming’, but scientists tend to use the term in the wider sense to
include natural changes in the climate.

3. hydroseeding
Hydroseeding is a seeding process in which seed and hydromulch are mixed into a slurry and applied
to an area with water. It usually consists of a blend of seed, fertilizer, mulch, and a tackifing agent that
is mixed with water to be sprayed from a specialised machine. This slurry becomes the seedbed and
aids in the germination of the desired vegetation. The mulch not only aids in the delivery of the seed,
but also helps retain moisture and protect the seedlings during the germination period

4. landslide
a sudden fall of large amounts of soil and rocks down the side of a mountain or of waste matter down
the side of a spoil heap.

5. Monsoon
a wind which blows in opposite directions according to the season, especially the wind blowing north
from the Indian Ocean in the summer.

6. Reservoir
an artificial or natural area of water, used for storing water for domestic or industrial use.

7. foothill
a hill or low mountain at the base of a higher mountain or range of mountains.
8. Soil erosion
the removal of soil by the effects of rain, wind, sea or cultivation practices.

9. Wetland
an area of land where the soil surface is almost level with the water table and where specially adapted
vegetation has developed.

10. ChatGPT
ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is an artificial
intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. It is a natural
language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows you to have human-like
conversations and much more with the chatbot. The language model can answer questions
and assist you with tasks like composing emails, essays, and code.

11.Artificial intelligence
the design of computer programs and systems that attempt to imitate human intelligence and decision-
making functions, providing basic reasoning and human characteristics.

12. RSV
Respiratory Syncytial Virus, or RSV, is a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild,
cold-like symptoms. Most people recover in a week or two, but RSV can be serious,
especially for infants and older adults. RSV is the most common cause of bronchiolitis
(inflammation of the small airways in the lung) and pneumonia (infection of the lungs) in
children younger than 1 year of age in the United States.

13. Dehydration
loss of water from the body

14. Power-politics
methods by which powerful governments demonstrate their strength in order to influence world events

15. Power-broker
a person or country that has a lot of influence and uses it to control other people or countries.

16. photo opportunity

a situation or event that lends itself to and is often arranged expressly for the
taking of pictures that give favorable publicity to the individuals
photographed

17. Earthquake
A shaking or slipping movement of the earth’s crust, followed by seismic waves and vibrations.

18. Aftershocks
smaller earthquakes that occur after the main earthquake in the same place as the mainshock. Aftershocks
are linked to the size of the mainshock and if this is large can continue for many weeks, months or years.

19. Epicentre

the point on the Earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake, i.e., directly above the true
centre of the seismic disturbance from which the shock waves of an earthquake seem to radiate. The
epicentre usually registers the strongest shaking.

20. Seismograph

a very sensitive instrument that can detect, measure and record ground vibrations and their intensities
during an earthquake.

21. Seismology

the branch of geology that studies earthquakes and seismic waves that move through and around the earth
as well as their effects. The people who study earthquakes and seismic waves are called seismologists.

22. Fault

a crack in the Earth’s crust along which the rocks slide. Faults are found at the edges of the plates where
the crust is moving in different directions.

23. Active fault

an active fault is one that has moved once or more times in the past 10,000 years and therefore likely to
move sometime in the future.

24. Legal Person

refers to a human or non-human entity that is treated as a person for limited legal purposes.
Typically, a legal persons can sue and be sued, own property, and enter into contracts.