IELTS vocabulary

when you need someone or something in order to exist or continue as before

• focus on

• drawback

• dependence (on)

• the next step

a type of animal or plant that soon may not exist because there are very few now alive

• wildlife conservation programme

• endangered species

• fresh air

• extinction

the place where animals live or plants grow naturally

• zero emissions

• nature reserve

• scenery

• natural habitat

something that produces a lot of electricity

• power station/ power plant

• a major source of electricity

• fossil fuels

• infrastructure

a place where animals and plants live and are protected

• nature reserve

• release into the atmosphere

• natural habitat

• yield

to use any information that you have to guess how much something will cost

• estimate the cost up

• advance payment

• harness energy

• zero emissions

areas of land that have not been changed or damaged by people

• sceptical

• rising sea levels

• calculate

• unspoilt countryside

If something such as a machine or an industry has zero emissions, it does not release any harmful substances into the atmosphere.

• estimate the cost

• zero emissions

• harness energy

• renewable energy

the increased height of the level of seas and oceans

• destruction

• rising sea levels

• climate change

• challenge

to use any information that you have to guess how much something will cost

• estimate the cost

• produce profitably

• infrastructure

• elease into the atmosphere