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The environment
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Learn words to talk about nature, pollution, waste and how people can protect the world around them.
Choose the environment word
Choose the best answer.
- Rubbish that people drop in the street is called ___.
- Solar power and wind power are examples of ___.
- An endangered animal is one that ___.
- Old newspapers can be ___ and made into new paper.
- The forest is the natural ___ of these monkeys.
- Smoke from factories and cars causes air ___.
- Taking your own bag to the shop helps ___ plastic waste.
- The ___ in this region is hot and dry for most of the year.
Complete the environment sentences
Type one word in each gap. Use each word once. Use: endangered, protect, recycle, reduce, renewable, single-use, waste.
- Please put empty cans in the blue bin so that we can ___ them.
- Food ___ is a big problem: people throw away huge amounts of food every day.
- Volunteers built a fence to ___ the birds' nests from dogs.
- Fewer than 500 of these tigers are left in the wild. They are ___.
- This café has stopped using ___ cups. Customers bring their own or borrow one.
- The town wants to ___ traffic in the centre by building more cycle paths.
- Wind turbines and solar panels produce ___ energy.
Answer key
Choose the environment word
- b) litterLitter is rubbish dropped in public places.
- c) renewable energyThe sun and the wind do not run out, so they give us renewable energy.
- a) might disappear completelyEndangered means at risk of disappearing from the world completely.
- b) recycledRecycling turns used material into something new.
- c) habitatA habitat is the natural home of an animal or plant.
- a) pollutionSmoke makes the air dirty, which is air pollution.
- b) reduceIf you use your own bag, you use fewer new bags, so you reduce waste.
- c) climateClimate is the usual weather in a place over a long period.
Complete the environment sentences
- recycleCans go in a special bin so they can be recycled and used again.
- wasteWaste is what people throw away because they don't need it.
- protect / guardProtect means keep something safe from harm.
- endangeredWhen very few are left, an animal is endangered.
- single-use / single use / disposableSingle-use cups are used once and thrown away.
- reduce / cut / lowerReduce means make something less. More cycle paths can mean fewer cars.
- renewable / clean / greenWind and sun do not run out, so they produce renewable energy.