Vocabulary Quiz

Human well-being and ecosystem health in many places are being……………affected by changes in the global water cycle, caused largely by human pressures.

• Loosely

• Roughly

• Poorly

• Seriously

• Consecutively

The invention of educational radio in the 1920s and the………..of televison in the 1940s created important new forms of communication for use in distance education.

• Expression

• Advent

• Intervention

• Pollutant

• Outbreak

The……..importance of a species to ecosystem functioning is determined by its traits and importance.

• Ultimate

• Recurrent

• Extensive

• Relative

• Sizeable

Pesticides can contrinute to water pollution, and seriously……….the health of both rural and urban residents, especially the poorest people.

• Remain

• Threaten

• Release

• Apply

• Contaminate

Since Asian economies depend………on agriculture and irrigation, agriculture puts the greatest demands on water resources

• Heavily

• Reluctantly

• Prosperously

• Brutally

• Previously

A(n)………rise in the level of water bodies due to persistent rain is considered to be the root cause of floods.

• Comprehensive

• Consecutive

• Uneasy

• Frequent

• Steady

Even when only one element is removed from the food chain, it can result in………..of a species in some cases.

• Endurance

• Incident

• Attribution

• Extinction

• Abandonment

Ozone high in the atmostphere helps……..the planet from radiation, that’s why scientists worry about the ozone layer.

• Destroy

• Alter

• Shield

• Orbit

• Deform

Thanks to great solution-based innovations and breakthroughs in science, we will be able to………the problems causing us suffering today.

• Pose

• Result

• Eradicate

• Boost

• Attribute

The potential detrimental effects of increased…….to ultraviolet light due to a lessening of atmospheric ozone are of great concern.

• Exposure

• Section

• Amount

• Desperation

• Compromise