Vocabulary (environment) 1

As the pace of _________________ picked up, the area of land covered by dense forest declined considerably.

• flooding

• deforestation

• ecosystems

• contaminate

They decided to widen out the river to avoid the __________.

• acid rain

• soil

• flooding

• emissions

Essentially , soil erosion is the key causing rocky ____________.

• greenhouse gases

• pollutants

• detrimental

• desertification

The strawberry harvest failed because of the _____________.

• funding

• atmosphere

• drought

• recycling

These chemicals have a _______________ impact on the environment.

• detrimental

• funding

• edible

• rise

Sunshine and water are ____________ to living things.

• detrimental

• beneficial

• decrease

• go up

This process of constructing ____________ environments on Mars can be begun at once.

• smog

• contaminated

• habitable

• edible

The probability is that pollution will ________ rapidly.

• rise

• beneficial

• detrimental

• deforestation

They tried to beat the sudden _____________ in land values.

• rise

• decrease

• detrimental

• beneficial

Getting____________for the environmental project was far from straightforward.

• funding

• detrimental

• beneficial

• drought