Environment / Modal verbs

ENVIRONMENT

MODAL VERBS

Recycling one drinks can can save enough energy to run a TV for 3 hours.

Every day, US businesses use enough paper to fly around the world 20 times

​27,000 trees are chopped down every day for toilet paper

​Plastic thrown into our ocean kills about a million sea creatures every year

​What do you think?

​New Words	​Definition
​Environmental degradation/decline	​
​Ozone layer depletion	​
​Desertification	​
​Deforestation	​
​Air/Soil/Water Pollution	​
​Acid Rain	​
​Soil Erosion	​
​Contamination	​
​Biodiversity loss	​

​ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

​New Words	​​Definition	​​New Words	​Definition
intensive farming	​	​habitat loss	​
industrialization	​	​water shortage	​
to discharge chemical waste	​	​energy crisis	​
​hyper-consumption	​	​endangered species	​
​emission of harmful gases	​	​landslide	​
​poaching	​	​flash flood	​

​ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES & EFECTS

​New Words	​Definition
​To reduce carbon footprint	​
​renewable energy	​
​green movement	​
​to raise public awareness	​
​forest restoration	​
​biodiversity conservation	​
​crop rotation	​
​waste treatment system	​
​to take public transportation	​

​ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTION