Environment + B1 vocabulary

Match the following

• a change, reaction or result

• affect

• to cause something to change

• frequent

• happen

• effect

• proof

• occur

• happening often

• evidence

Match the following

• a group of animals or plants

• estimate

• to guess the cost, size, value, etc.

• argue

• to discuss the disagreement

• convince

• dying out

• species

• to make someone believe something

• extinction

In the 1950s and 1960s, scientists started presenting ​ (a)   ​ (b)   of the warming ​ (c)   , while other scientists thought that ​ (d)   could also have a cooling effect.​

• convincing
• calculations
• effect
• pollution
• affect

The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) ​ (a)   that 20-30 percent of plant and animal ​ (b)   will be at risk of ​ (c)   if the temperatures continue to ​ (d)   .

• estimates
• species
• extinction
• rise
• decrease

By the 1980s, scientists began to present ​ (a)   proof that human activity was warming the ​ (b)   , which was when society became ​ (c)   about global warming.

• calculated
• climate
• concerned
• effect
• present

Reorder the following

• more hot days and

• fewer cold days.

• Global warming

• will cause

Reorder the following

• by 1.7 millimetres per year on average,

• Between 1870

• 221 millimetres in all.

• and 2000,

• the sea level rose

The environment includes everything that surrounds us and can possibly _____ (change, influence) us in one way or another.

• argue

• affect

• effect

• convince

I've _____ my parents to buy me a scooter for my birthday.

• estimated

• calculated

• argued

• convinced

Even though I've been _____ with my mum about tatoos for years, she still thinks I shouldn't get any.

• affecting

• influencing

• arguing

• convincing