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Pelajari kosakata yang tepat seperti mitigate, deplete, carbon sink, tipping point, dan greenwashing untuk membahas isu lingkungan.

Pilih opsi terbaik

Pilih kata atau frasa yang melengkapi setiap kalimat dengan benar.

  1. Planting native trees on hillsides can help ___ the effects of flooding.
    • a) mitigate
    • b) deplete
    • c) degrade
    • d) harvest
  2. Decades of overfishing have ___ stocks of cod across the northern seas.
    • a) depleted
    • b) mitigated
    • c) offset
    • d) sequestered
  3. What does greenwashing mean?
    • a) cleaning a river to remove pollution
    • b) giving a false impression that an organisation is environmentally responsible
    • c) replacing fossil fuels with solar power
    • d) planting trees in cities
  4. Scientists warn that if warming passes a certain ___, some ice sheets could collapse irreversibly.
    • a) carbon sink
    • b) tipping point
    • c) circular economy
    • d) stewardship
  5. What does land degradation mean?
    • a) the gradual decline in the quality of soil and land
    • b) the sale of farmland to developers
    • c) the removal of rubbish from fields
    • d) the movement of animals to new areas
  6. What does it mean to offset a company's emissions?
    • a) to hide figures about them
    • b) to measure them very accurately
    • c) to balance them by reducing or removing an equal amount elsewhere
    • d) to produce them more slowly
  7. A ___ economy keeps materials in use by repairing, reusing and recycling products.
    • a) linear
    • b) circular
    • c) finite
    • d) fragile
  8. Because fossil fuels are ___, we cannot rely on them for ever.
    • a) resilient
    • b) biodiverse
    • c) circular
    • d) finite

Lengkapi kalimatnya

Ketik kata yang melengkapi setiap kalimat. Pakai setiap kata satu kali: biodiversity, degradation, deplete, greenwashing, mitigate, resilient, sink, stewardship.

  1. Coral reefs support an extraordinary level of marine ___.
  2. Communities with a strong sense of ___ manage their forests carefully for future generations.
  3. Soil ___ caused by intensive farming has left much of the land unproductive.
  4. The advert showed green meadows, but critics dismissed it as ___ because the factory's emissions had risen.
  5. Wetlands are ___ ecosystems: they recover quickly after storms.
  6. If we ___ the aquifer faster than rain refills it, the wells will run dry.
  7. Sea walls and flood barriers are built to ___ the damage from storm surges.
  8. Old forests are a major carbon ___ because they absorb more carbon than they release.

Kunci jawaban

Pilih opsi terbaik

  1. a) mitigateMitigate berarti membuat sesuatu yang berbahaya menjadi kurang serius. Pohon memperlambat air dan mengurangi kerusakan akibat banjir.
  2. a) depletedDeplete berarti menghabiskan sampai hanya sedikit yang tersisa. Penangkapan ikan berlebihan menyisakan lebih sedikit ikan.
  3. b) giving a false impression that an organisation is environmentally responsibleGreenwashing adalah membuat perusahaan atau produk tampak lebih ramah lingkungan daripada kenyataannya.
  4. b) tipping pointTipping point adalah saat setelah mana suatu perubahan tidak dapat dibalikkan.
  5. a) the gradual decline in the quality of soil and landDegradation berarti penurunan kualitas, jadi land degradation adalah penurunan kualitas tanah dan lahan.
  6. c) to balance them by reducing or removing an equal amount elsewhereOffsetting menyeimbangkan emisi dengan membayar pengurangan atau penghapusan emisi di tempat lain.
  7. b) circularCircular economy menjaga bahan tetap terpakai. Linear economy melakukan kebalikannya: membuat, memakai, membuang.
  8. d) finiteFinite berarti terbatas. Bahan bakar fosil butuh jutaan tahun untuk terbentuk, jadi pasokannya akan habis.

Lengkapi kalimatnya

  1. biodiversity / diversityBiodiversity berarti keanekaragaman makhluk hidup.
  2. stewardship / responsibility / ownershipStewardship berarti pengelolaan yang hati-hati dan bertanggung jawab atas sesuatu.
  3. degradation / erosion / depletionSoil degradation adalah penurunan kualitas tanah.
  4. greenwashingGreenwashing memberi kesan palsu tentang tanggung jawab terhadap lingkungan.
  5. resilientResilient berarti mampu pulih dengan cepat.
  6. deplete / drain / exhaust / emptyDeplete berarti menghabiskan. Setelah we, kita membutuhkan bentuk dasar.
  7. mitigate / reduce / limit / lessen / minimise / minimizeMitigate berarti membuat dampaknya menjadi kurang parah.
  8. sink / storeCarbon sink menyerap lebih banyak karbon daripada yang dilepaskannya.