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WorksheetsVocabulary Check Unit 8
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
The destruction os where wildlife lives as a result of deforestation is called (a)
A long period of dry weather when there isn't enough water is a ...
(a)
A ... is a very serious situation when there is very little or even no food for a population.
(a)
Bad health resulting from lack of food or eating the wrong sorts of food is called ...
(a)
A ... is a violent tropical wind that moves in circles round a calm area.
(a)
The ... is the warming of the earth's atmosohere caused bythe burning of fossil fuel and the increase of gases such as carbon dioxide.
(a)
The act of cutting down large areas of forest is called ...
(a)
(a) is the situation in which there are too many people living in a place.
A sudden large fall of rocks or soil down a hillside is called a (a)
An (a) is a large amount of rocks, snow or soil that falls down a mountain.
(a) have been burning for three weeks in Indonesia and have destroyed thousands of hectares of virgin forest.
A (a) is the situation when steam or lava escapes from a volcano.
Bangladesh is regularly hit by (a) caused by heavy rain in the monsoon period.
A major (a) is expected in California in the next few years and special building regulations have been introduced to minimise loss of human life.
A (a) is due to hit the coast of Florida this evening and residents are being evacuated from coastal areas.
The state of being very poor is called ...
(a)
A situation in which women are treated unfairly and have fewer advantages is ...
(a)
(a) are catastrophic events with atmospheric, geological, and hydrological origins that can cause fatalities, property damage and social environmental disruption.
A species of animal or plant that is seriously at risk of extinction is an (a)
A layer of the chemical ozone in the earth's atmsphere that blocks harmful rays from the sun.
(a)
