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Unit 8 Vocabulary Exercise

1. The document discusses environmental issues related to vocabulary words like habitat, balance, barren, pollution, and web of life. It provides sentences using these words in contexts like deforestation affecting habitats, natural disasters disrupting balance, and human actions causing pollution and making land barren. Maintaining the ecosystem and its balance is our responsibility to safeguard the environment.

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Unit 8 Vocabulary Exercise

1. The document discusses environmental issues related to vocabulary words like habitat, balance, barren, pollution, and web of life. It provides sentences using these words in contexts like deforestation affecting habitats, natural disasters disrupting balance, and human actions causing pollution and making land barren. Maintaining the ecosystem and its balance is our responsibility to safeguard the environment.

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Unit 8 : Environmental Issues

Topic : Vocabulary
Fill in the blanks with the most suitable answer.
dispose
habitat
balance
barren
environment
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

strewn
overflows
foul
scorching
carnivorous

natural disasters
Waste
land clearing
Stench
herbivorous

reservoirs
development
threatened
diseases
sears

disinfectant
ensure
deforestation
contaminated
safeguard

excessive
flash flood
volunteer
replanted
web of life

prevent
absorb
haze
pollution
unhygienic

Plants ____________________ sunlight to grow roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits.
Natural disasters and humans actions could change the _____________ of nature.
It is our responsibility to _____________ the ecosystem and maintain its balance.
We cannot ______________ natural disasters but we can curb them.
_____________________ like earthquakes, floods and fires started by lightning happen all over
the world.
6. _____________________ cutting of trees affect the balance of nature.
7. Land clearing for _____________________ affects the natural flow of water of the area and it
will cause _______________________ and disrupts peoples daily lives.
8. _____________ smell from the landfill is unbearable.
9. Chlorine and ____________________ are needed to kill the microorganism.
10. The fully treated water is stored in __________________.
11. The __________________ is so thick that the citizens are asked to wear masks when they go
outdoors.
12. Many animals lose their _____________ because of the excessive cutting and burning of forests.
13. The council ensures that the collection of household _____________ is regular in every
neighbourhood.
14. Garbage that ______________ the bins causes dogs, cats and rats rampaging through the
garbage.
15. The irresponsible residents ______________ the rubbish everywhere in the park.
16. The residents are asked to ___________ the waste into the garbage bins provided.
17. ____________________________ can cause rivers to be polluted.
18. Many animals are ________________ because of the deforestation.
19. The students _________________ to clean the drains.
20. ____________ are spread by the presence of pest and _____________ condition of the area.
21. The smell of the garbage is __________________ and it attracts the pests rampaging it.
22. The sun is hot and it ______________ our skin.
23. The students are asked not to drink the water because it is _____________________.
24. The forest is ______________ due to deforestation.
25. Human actions cause ________________ to the earth.
26. ___________________ animals eat plants and __________________ animals eat meat.
27. New trees should be __________________ where forests have been cleared.
28. The ___________________ heat affected the growth of the plants.
29. We are responsible for our actions towards the _______________________.
30. Human actions include air and water pollution and excessive cutting of trees affect the
_______________________.

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