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Exercises For Vocabulary Environment - With Answer

Part 1 defines terms related to the environment such as traffic, litter, pollution, gasoline/petrol, climate, and rubbish. Part 2 contains a vocabulary quiz about environmental topics. Terms are defined related to emitting pollutants, reusing materials, consuming excess packaging, acid rain, composting, donating old clothes, clear-cutting forests, climate change, preserving forests and wetlands, protesting government support of fossil fuels, energy efficiency, enforcing pollution regulations, banning hazardous pollutants, hazardous waste, planting trees, conservation, renewable energy, greenhouse gases, habitat, and living in an eco-friendly community.

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Exercises For Vocabulary Environment - With Answer

Part 1 defines terms related to the environment such as traffic, litter, pollution, gasoline/petrol, climate, and rubbish. Part 2 contains a vocabulary quiz about environmental topics. Terms are defined related to emitting pollutants, reusing materials, consuming excess packaging, acid rain, composting, donating old clothes, clear-cutting forests, climate change, preserving forests and wetlands, protesting government support of fossil fuels, energy efficiency, enforcing pollution regulations, banning hazardous pollutants, hazardous waste, planting trees, conservation, renewable energy, greenhouse gases, habitat, and living in an eco-friendly community.

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Part 1

1.   Worthless material that is to be disposed of

 gasoline / petrol   
 rubbish   ⁄
 traffic  

2.   The aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular
locality during a specified period of time

 traffic    ⁄
 litter   
 pollution

3.   Rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)

 litter    ⁄
 climate   
 pollution

4. A volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.)
derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines

 gasoline / petrol   ⁄
 climate   
 rubbish  

5. the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time

 climate    ⁄
 pollution   
 traffic

6. Undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful


substances as a consequence of human activities
 rubbish   
 litter   
 pollution   ⁄

Part 2

1. Many factories _______ harmful pollutants into the atmosphere.

 minimize
 donate
 emit

2. You can _______ plastic bags again and again until they get holes in them.

 reuse ⁄
 resume
 reduce

3. Americans _______ many products that are sold with excess packaging.

 consume ⁄
 protect
 pollute

4. Burning fossil fuels can cause _______ to fall from the clouds.

 smog
 carbon footprints
 acid rain ⁄

5. You can _______ organic household waste by having a compost bin in the garden.
 protect
 recycle ⁄
 fertilize

6. Instead of throwing away old clothes, _______ them to organizations that help poor
people.

 consume
 donate ⁄
 emit

7. The company is _______ an ancient forest in order to sell the wood.

 clear-cutting ⁄
 reducing
 recycling

8. Which is an example of climate change?

 reforestation
 global warming ⁄
 air pollution

9. Environmentalists understand the importance of _______ forests and wetlands.

 minimizing
 banning
 preserving ⁄

10. We will _______ if the government supports fossil fuel companies instead of tackling
global warming.

 prevent
 protest ⁄
 protect

11. Energy-efficient vehicles and appliances use


 no energy
 more energy
 less energy ⁄

12. Regulations only stop factories from _______ the environment if they're enforced.

 protecting
 consuming
 polluting ⁄

13. We should _______ pollutants that seriously damage our health or the environment.

 emit
 use up
 ban ⁄

14. Which can cause serious health or environmental problems?

 hazardous waste ⁄
 domestic waste
 recycled waste

15. If you're working for a reforestation project you're probably _______ trees.

 planting ⁄
 clearcutting
 poisoning

16. The protection and preservation of natural resources and the environment is called

 contamination
 conservation
 protectionism

17. To stop global warming we have to use _______ energy like solar and wind.
 self-sufficient
 fossil-fuel
 renewable ⁄

18. Gases that stop heat from escaping into space are called _______ gases.

 green
 greenhouse
 zero-emission

19. The place in which a plant, animal, bird or fish normally lives is its

 habitat ⁄
 food chain
 eco-community

20. We're going to live in an environmentally-friendly

 ecosystem
 ecovillage
 habitat

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