Global success 10 Unit 9: Proc The Envir

During the last hundred years we have done great ____ to the environment.

• injury

• pollution

• damage

• hurt

Environmentalists are furious with the American Government for delaying measures which will reduce greenhouse gas ____.

• exhaust fumes

• smoke

• wastes

• emissions

Farmers contribute to environmental damage by spraying ____ with ____, which stay in the soil for years.

• agriculture – pesticides

• agriculture - fertilizers

• crops – fertilizers

• crops - pesticides

The gradual rise in the Earth's temperature is known as ____.

As the Earth gets hotter, the Arctic and Antarctic ____ will slowly melt and the level of the oceans will rise.

• snowballs

• ice caps

• snowflakes

• icebergs

Thousands of acres of forest are being cut down every year and the ____ of many animals are being destroyed.

• natural resources

• natural habitats

• natural materials

• natural energy

Make sure your car runs on unleaded petrol and your home uses sources of ____ energy.

• recyclable

• reused

• renewable

• non-renewable

Greenpeace is an international group that protests against anything which is a ____ to the environment.

• threat

• threaten

• threatening

• threatener

It is predicted that over the next few decades many species will die ____ as once lands turn to desert.

• back

• out

• up

• down

"You'll get wet without an umbrella," Dad said. Dad said I ____ wet without an umbrella.

• will be getting

• got

• would be getting

• would get