Name: __________________ Date: _____/ _____ / ______

Mark: Teacher:

1-Use the words in the box to complete this newspaper article about an environmental problem:

blood mixture

chemicals holidays pesticides

spray agricultural

CHEMICALS MAKE BLOOD-RED SEA

The valley of the river Po in Northern Italy is an important ..area. The farmers in this region produce a lot of very good food but they use a lot of .. to help them. They .the fields with . and chemicals to feed and protect the crops. Unfortunately , when it rains, a lot of these chemicals are washed away from the earth into streams and eventually into the River Po. This river carries the chemicals into the Adriatic Sea. In 1989, parts of the Adriatic sea became as red as ..: an algae, a type of sea weed, was growing in the rich ..of chemicals in the water. Tourists didnt want to swim in the red water and cancelled their .. .

2-Complete the text below by inserting the words/ phrases in the box:

Pesticides Exhaust fumes Dangerous

Rush hour Wind Polluting Power stations Traffic jams

Food chain Chemicals

Every day during the ______________________you can see cars stuck in ________________sending their ______________________ up into the atmosphere, _____________________our environment. It is not only in town that the quality of life is being threatened. Although farmers say they have to spray _____________

on their crops, some experts believe that these ___________________could get into the _______________, which will result in a dramatic increase in the number of people affected by cancer and various allergies. Potentially the most _________________ threat to the environment is nuclear waste from _____________. By developing alternative sources of energy, such as _________________and wave power , we can make our world much safer to live in.

3-Complete the text below by inserting the words in the box:

Recycling Dumping Waste

Toxic Poisons Chimney

Dirty Smoke

The main reason for pollution is ________________-- something which is no longer needed. Waste can be many things: it can be yesterdays newspaper, an old car, your _____________bath water, or _____________ from a factory ________________. Some waste is dangerous, because it contains ____________________.This kind of waste is called __________________ waste and it is worrying many governments today. If you want to do something better than _________________, you can change waste into something different. You can sort your waste so that paper, metal and clothes, for example, can be sold to dealers for _____________________ .

4-Complete the text below by inserting the words/ phrases in the box:

Cut down Droughts Rubbish (2x) Rainforests Plastic Land

Soil Species

Tropical _________________ in South America and in Africa are being cleared away for _________________ and to use the ________________ for farming. In the last 30 years , more than 80% of Africas Ivory Coast rainforest has been ____________________. But the loss of trees is leading to ____________erosion, mud slides and _________________. Many plants and animals no longer have a home and 48 ____________of plants and animals are wiped out every day. Another great threat to animals is __________________as many animals are strangled or choke on ____________________ bags, since plastic is not biodegradable.

5-Complete the text below by inserting the words

in the box:

pollution

problem distribution

food forests

feed degradation

agricultural

Less food, more people

A world Bank report warns that .practices are destroying our ability to produce in the future. The of soil, the of water resulting from farming and the destruction of . are endangering future food supplies. ( ) Solutions to the . include better of the food we produce, integrated farming that is sustainable and environmentally-friendly and bio-engineering. By 2020 there will be another one-and-a-half million people to in the world( )

6-Complete the text below by inserting the words

in the box:

produce save buy recycle waste throw away too afterwards rubbish products factories plates handkerchiefs tins people aluminium

In the wealthy ..of the world people.a lot. They a lot of unnecessary things and often good food. In order to make everyday life simpler, we .millions of things like paper.. and throw away cups and .. In the USA you can buy special TV dinners, which the .have packed in containers. No washingup: you simply throw the container away . . Think how many materials we could ..if we didnt manufacture these .We might save a lot in other ways, .. .If people sorted their , for example, and kept separate dustbins for paper, glass, ..and left-over food. Then we would be able to use a lot of things again or them.

Solutions:

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