Environment + B1 vocabulary

Match the following

• to cause something to change

• evidence

• proof

• occur

• a change, reaction or result

• affect

• happening often

• effect

• happen

• frequent

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

CCSS.L.9-10.1.C

Match the following

• a group of animals or plants

• estimate

• to make someone believe something

• argue

• to discuss the disagreement

• species

• dying out

• extinction

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

• convince

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

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

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Reorder the following

• fewer cold days.

• more hot days and

• Global warming

• will cause

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4

CCSS.L.5.2E

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

Reorder the following

• by 1.7 millimetres per year on average,

• the sea level rose

• and 2000,

• Between 1870

• 221 millimetres in all.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

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

• argue

• affect

• effect

• convince

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

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

• estimated

• calculated

• argued

• convinced

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

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

• affecting

• influencing

• arguing

• convincing

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4