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Environment Vocabulary

Logging companies are

responsible for the
destruction of
rainforests.
We should recycle our
waste.

1 of 2

Cars produce exhaust

fumes that cause
pollution.
Many species are in
danger of extinction.

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Environment Vocabulary Exe

x rcises
1

Match a word in A with a word in B.

1
2
3
4
5
6

A
global
greenhouse
ozone
acid
endangered
air

B
a
b
c
d
e
f

B
rain
layer
warming
pollution
effect
species

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
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

2 of 2

a
a
a
a
a
a
a
a

of
breath
use
loggy
down
make
were
more clean

b
b
b
b
b
b
b
b

on
breathing
used
log
off
give
would be
most clean

c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c

for
breathe
would use
logging
up
take
would have been
cleanest

d
d
d
d
d
d
d
d

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about
breathed
could use
logger
on
produce
had been
cleaner

ENVIRONMENT VOCABULARY
Exercises

Exercise 1
2e

3b

4a

5f

6d

Exercise 2
2 pollute

3 recycle

8 hunter

9 hunted

4 recycled

5 endanger

6d

8d

6 destroy

7 destruction

3b

4c

5a

7b

O
TO

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2b

FR BE C
O DO O
M W P
W N IA
EB LO B
SI AD L
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Exercise 3

CA

GEOGRAPHY

ANSWER KEY