Exercises to the text "Ecological Problems"

  1. 1.             Find an odd word in each line:

1. influence, growth, relationship, nuclear, use, rate, vehicle.

2. environmental, natural, industrial, ultimately, human, complete, huge, current, tremendous, dangerous.

3. industrial, negative, society, modern, excessive, widespread.

4.deal, cause, affect, increase, modify, enter, connect, dominate, create, set, lead, reduce, dump, reach, protect, reduce, simply.

5.environment, resources, nature, population, humankind, survival, mankind, air, water, soil, energy, mess, gasoline.

6. activities, products, cars, cities, ourselves, years, home, centuries, difficulties.

7. modification, action, environment,  production, pollution, situation, consumption.

8. biggest, dirtier, noisier, more dangerous, sooner, later.

9. without, along, with, during, complete.

10. thinking, vehicle, polluted, mining, growing, helping, endangered.

 

  1. 2.             Find a general word for each line:

a)                        gasoline, oil, coal -

b)                        river, ocean, sea, lake -

c)                        air, water, soil, animals -

 

3. What are the antonyms of these words:

a)                        shortage -

b)                        difference -

c)                        land -

d)                        toxic -

e)                        scarce -

f)                         future -

 

4. Fill in the necessary words or word combinations:

  1. Ecology is a science which studies the ... between all forms of life on our planet and the  ... .
  2. For thousands of years people exploited the nature thoughtlessly thinking that its resources had no end or  ... .
  3. With the industrial ...  our negative ...  on nature increased.
  4. Modern ecology has to deal with environmental problems caused by human ….
  5. The biggest pollutions on our planet are the result of ...  fuels use.
  6. ...  society is simply unthinkable without gasoline, oil, and coal.
  7. It's not a … of energy but its ...  consumption that might lead to such a situation.
  8. … are major sources of air pollution.
  9. No doubt that  …  condition of our planet definitely belongs under "global ecological crisis" category.

10.There are the few actions that can help us to …  nature environment:

 

5. Make up sentences using the following words:

  1. A, very, ecology, popular, word, today, is, today.
  2. We, made, mess, environmental, the, years, tremendous, over.
  3. Air, vehicles, pollution, are, sources, major, of.
  4. We, our, overfish, population, oceans, growing, with.
  5. Today, radically, is, transformed, environment.
  6. Always, affected, people, have, nature.
  7. Gasoline, are, refineries, distilled, diesel, and, fuels, at, huge.
  8.  Humankind, entering, era, new, a, is, its, evolution, of, nature, relationship, characterized, in, by, new, nature, with.