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Environment Vocabulary

Logging companies are Cars produce exhaust


responsible for the fumes that cause
destruction of pollution.
rainforests.
Many species are in
We should recycle our danger of extinction.
waste.

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Environment Vocabulary Exe


x rcises
1 Match a word in A with a word in B. B
A B
1 global a rain
2 greenhouse b layer
3 ozone c warming
4 acid d pollution
5 endangered e effect
6 air f species

2 Complete the table with the correct form of the word.


verb noun adjective

–––––––––––––––––– environment environmental


(1) ...................................

(2) ................................... pollution polluting

(3) ................................... recycling (4) ...................................

(5) ................................... –––––––––––––––––– endangered

(6) ................................... (7) ................................... destructive

hunt (8) ................................... (9) ...................................

3 x Choose the correct option to complete the text.

c
Cars are responsible (1) .................. air pollution. They produce chemicals that cause
(2) .................. problems. Air pollution causes acid rain, too, which kills trees and plants. If
people (3) .................. public transport rather than cars, the quality of our life would improve.
Another enemy of our environment are (4) .................. companies, who chop (5) ..................
trees and destroy rainforests. This is very dangerous because trees (6) .................. oxygen which
is vital to us. If governments stopped these companies, rainforests (7) .................. safe and we
could all breathe (8) .................. air.

1 a of b on c for d about
2 a breath b breathing c breathe d breathed
3 a use b used c would use d could use
4 a loggy b log c logging d logger
5 a down b off c up d on
6 a make b give c take d produce
7 a were b would be c would have been d had been
8 a more clean b most clean c cleanest d cleaner

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ENVIRONMENT VOCABULARY
Exercises

ANSWER KEY
GEOGRAPHY

Exercise 1
2e 3b 4a 5f 6d

Exercise 2
2 pollute 3 recycle 4 recycled 5 endanger 6 destroy 7 destruction

8 hunter 9 hunted

Exercise 3
2b 3b 4c 5a 6d 7b 8d

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