21cc unit 6 part 1 vocabulary quiz

The oil spill caused terrible damage to the _____ ecology of the coast.

• preservation

• massive

• fragile

• cement

Many species are threatened in the wild due to _____ destruction by man.

• instrumental

• habitat

• precious

• species

''_____ of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.''

Ronald Reagan

• Habitats

• Barrier

• Species

• Preservation

Flowers will not _____ without sunshine.

• thrive

• bottle up

• release

• nudge

Seeing over a thousand _____ of fish is part of the fascination of the reef. The biodiversity there is awesome.

• resilience

• habitats

• barriers

• species

They decided to _____ the broken pavement so that everybody can use it again.

• thrive

• cement

• reach out to

• freak out

The river formed an impassable _____ for migrating animals.

• habitat

• species

• barrier

• confession

Our artistic director was _____ in persuading the orchestra to come and play for environmentalist association.

• instrumental

• willing to

• massive

• barrier

Clean water is a/an _____ commodity in many parts of the world as there is a serious water shortage.

• precious

• compassionate

• acute

• inevitably

She suffered a/an _____ exposure to toxic chemicals when she went scuba diving and had to stay in the hospital for two weeks.

• instrumental

• fragile

• massive

• precious