Mindset IE1 - U8 : Vocabulary & Grammar

Match the following animals to their correct categories:

• Salmon, shark, seahorse

• Reptiles (animals that lay eggs and use the sun to keep their blood warm)

• Frog

• Amphibians (animals that live both on land and in water)

• Parrot, eagle, penguin

• Fish

• Crocodile, snake, lizard

• Mammals

• Rabbit, bear, whale

• Birds

Bears have ______.

• Antlers

• Fur

• Fins

Eagles have ______.

• Claws

• Antlers

• Scales

Elephants have ______.

• Feathers

• Horns

• Trunks.

Salmon have ______.

• Scales

• Feathers

• Claws

Rhinos have ______.

• Fins

• Horns

• Humps

I believe that people have a responsibility to take care of ​ (a)   . The best way to do this is to protect the places where they live – their natural ​ (b)   . That’s why I decided to take part in a local ​ (c)   project to protect the plants and animals in a forest near my town.

• wildlife
• habitat
• conservation
• population
• rare

The forest is home to several ​ (a)   – types of animals and plants which may soon not exist because there are so few of them. For example, there are some very ​ (b)   birds, which are only found in a few small areas now – there are probably fewer than 500 of them left in the wild. Fifty years ago, there were lots of them everywhere – they were a lot more ​ (c)   . Anyway, thanks to our conservation project, the bird ​ (d)   is slowly going up again. The birds are still at ​ (e)   , but hopefully we’ll be able to save them.

• population
• rare
• endangered species
• common
• risk
• pollution
• conservation

The general name for the natural world: the air, water and land in or on which people, animals and plants live.

• the environment

• the population

• the government

The layer of air high above the Earth that protects it from the sun’s rays.

• the greenhouse effect

• the troposphere

• the ozone layer