Name
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Date
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Teacher _____________
I.A. Read the
paragraphs below and match them with the threat they refer to:
1.“
Environmental racism is inequitable distribution of environmental hazards
based on race. The Federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
considers lead poisoning to be the number one environmental health problem
for children in the United States. Some 4 million children – many of whom are
African American, Latino and Native American- have dangerously high lead
levels in their bodies. This lead is absorbed from contaminated drinking
water and soil polluted by industrial effluents and automobile exhaust.”
2.“Every year
humans kill about 100 million sharks, skates and rays, about half of them
caught as unwanted “by-catch” while fishing for other species. Sharks are particularly
sensitive to overfishing because they grow slowly, mature late and have few
young each generation. As top predators, sharks play a crucial role in the
health of the ocean ecosystems and their extermination could lead to major
ecological changes in the ocean”.
3.“ In
February 2002, a huge section of the Larsen B Ice Shelf along The Antarctic
Peninsula coast suddenly disintegrated into thousands of icebergs. The total
volume of ice released was the equivalent to 29 trillion bags of party ice.
Climatologists warn that this dramatic collapse could be a signal of global
climate change and an omen of catastrophic events to come.”
4.“ A 1
percent loss of ozone results in a 2 percent increase in UV rays reaching the
earth’s surface and could result in about a million extra human skin cancers
per year worldwide.”
5.“ Every
second, on average, four or five children are born somewhere on the earth. I
that same second, two other people die. This difference between births and
deaths means a net gain of roughly 2.5 more humans per second in the world
population. This means we are adding 9,000 per hour, 217,000 per day, or
about 79 million more people per year.”
6.“ Sulfur
dioxide and sulphuric acid released by industry causes massive destruction of
the vegetation. Rains then wash away the exposed soil, leaving a barren
moonscape.”
7.“Pollution
from factory pipes has been vastly reduced but erosion from farm fields,
construction sites, airborne mercury, sulphur and other substances are
increasingly contaminating lakes and wetlands.”
8.“ Worldwide,
we lost between 9 million and 12 million ha of forest per year from 1990 to
2000. Clear-cutting and burning especially in order to get pasture and
cropland have turned many forests into a dry, barren ground”.
9.“ How does
the air taste, feel, smell, and look in your neighbourhood? Chances are that
wherever you live, the air is contaminated to some degree. Smoke, dust,
corrosive gases and toxic compounds are present nearly everywhere.”
Environmental
Science − A
Global Concern
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·Animal
extinction
·Acid rain
·Air pollution
·Overpopulation
·Water pollution
·Deforestation
·Ozone Depletion
·Global warming
·Toxic waste
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B. Read the following text carefully:
The Amazon forest covers five million
square kilometers, an area as big as the whole Europe excluding Russia. It
contains one third of the world’s trees. However, the trees are disappearing.
By 1974, a quarter of the forest had already been cut down. In the following
year, 1975, four per cent of the remaining trees went. If the destruction of
the forest continues at the same rate, there will be nothing left in a few
years.
Scientists say that the
disappearance of trees is already causing changes in the climate. In Peru,
there is less snow than before on the high peaks of the Andes mountains. In
Bolivia there is very little rain.
What will happen if more of the Amazon
forest is cut down? According to climatologists if the Amazon forest
disappears, there will be less oxygen and it will be difficult for us to
breathe, the temperature will rise, the ice-caps at the North and the South
poles will melt. Even the sea level will rise. Therefore, seaside cities will
be flooded.
Scientists do
not agree about the calculations which can be done in different ways with
different results. But all the scientists agree that if we destroy the Amazon
forest, it will be an environmental suicide. Life on earth will become
difficult, and it may become impossible.
1-Give a title
to the text.
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2-Say whether
the following statements are true or false:
a-The Amazon forest is bigger than Europe. ________________
b-It contains most of the world’s trees. ______________
c-Deforestation leads to climate change. _______________
d-If the Amazon forest is destroyed, the coastal towns will be under water.
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3-Answer the
following questions according to the text:
a- How big is the Amazon forest?
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b- Why is the Amazon forest so important?
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c-
What
will happen if it ever disappears?
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4-Match the
words with their synonyms:
1-whole a- weather
2-climate b-go up
3-rise c-result
4-consequence d- complete
5-Find in the
text words that are opposite in meaning to:
-including §1 _____________________ -low §2
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-drop §3 ________________________ -easy §4
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c
1.Gap-filling
Fill in the gaps
in the text below with the words from the table.
acid
– change – endangered – environmental – layer –
ozone
– polluted – rainforests – reduction – renewable
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Friends
of the Earth is the world’s largest international network of (1)
………………………………………. Groups represented in 68 countries. In the UK, it was the
first organization to campaign to save whales, (2) …………………………………….. species and
tropical (3) …………………………………………. . Friends of the Earth also fought against (4)
………………………………………… rain, (5) …………………………………… depletion and climate (6)
…………………………………………………. .
The
organization’s present campaigns cover many more issues, such as protecting the
wildlife and the countryside and cutting air pollution. They promote waste (7)
……………………………………………… and cleaning up of (8) …………………………………………. Rivers. They also
campaign for the reduction of traffic levels and the improvement of public
transport.
They
lobby politicians and political parties to protect the ozone (9)
…………………………………………… and control dangerous chemicals.
to
control dangerous chemicals. Their objectives also include promoting energy
efficiency and (10) …………………………………………….. energy.
2.Matching
Match the words
from the two columns to create phrases or collocations.
SOLUTIONS:
1. ozone
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A. waste
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2. nuclear
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B. layer
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3. natural
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C. rain
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4. greenhouse
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D. effect
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5. global
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E. dioxide
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6. dumping
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F. warming
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7. carbon
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G. resources
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8. acid
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H. ground
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3.Find words
that best complete the sentences. Each line corresponds to one letter. Some
letters have already been given.
1.
Car
_ x _ _ _ _ _ emissions are a major source of lead pollution in the
atmosphere.
2.
The
company is very environmentally friendly: all the products come in
_ _ _ d _ _ _ _ d _ _ _ _ packaging.
3.
Using
energy efficiently reduces the emission of _ _ _ _ _ h _ _ s _ gases.
4.
Oxygen
in the atmosphere forms a screen – the ozone layer – which filters the
_ _ _ _ a _ _ _ l _ _ rays of the sun.
5.
The
Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident released huge amounts of r _ d _ _ _ _
_ n into the environment.
6.
The
dinosaurs _ _ _ d out 65 million years ago.
7. _ m _ _ _ is the major cause of air pollution in big cities.
III . writing
Which of the Environmental problems
mentioned in exercise A worry you the most. Account for your answer (about 100
words).
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