Question

Match the definitions with the words.

1. To make something less or smaller in size, quantity, price, etc. ______________

2. Rain that contains harmful chemicals from factory gases and that damages trees, crops and buildings. __________________________________________________

3. A building or group of buildings where electricity is produced. ______________

4. When a natural habitat, such as a forest or wetland, is altered so dramatically that it no longer supports the species it originally sustained. __________________

5. Causing damage or injury to somebody/something, especially to a person’s health or to the environment. ___________________________________________

6. To send out something such as light, heat, sound, gas, etc. __________________

7. If something dies out, it becomes less and less common and eventually disappears completely. ________________________________________________

8. Unpleasant and unhealthy smoke and gases that are produced by fires or by things such as chemicals or fuel. ________________________________________

9. The process of making air, water, soil, etc. dirty. _________________________

10. Waste generated by manufacturing or industrial processes. ________________



a) a power station

b) harmful

c) toxic fumes

d) factory waste

e) acid rain

f) to reduce

g) loss of natural habitats

h) pollution

i) species dying

j) to emit

Answer 1

Ответ:

1. To make something less or smaller in size, quantity, price, etc. f)to reduce

2. Rain that contains harmful chemicals from factory gases and that damages trees, crops and buildings. e)acid rain

3. A building or group of buildings where electricity is produced. a) a power station

4. When a natural habitat, such as a forest or wetland, is altered so dramatically that it no longer supports the species it originally sustained. g) loss if natural habitats

5. Causing damage or injury to somebody/something, especially to a person’s health or to the environment. b) harmful

6. To send out something such as light, heat, sound, gas, etc. j) to emit

7. If something dies out, it becomes less and less common and eventually disappears completely.

i) species dying

8. Unpleasant and unhealthy smoke and gases that are produced by fires or by things such as chemicals or fuel. c) toxic fumes

9. The process of making air, water, soil, etc. dirty.

h) pollution

10. Waste generated by manufacturing or industrial processes. d) factory waste