The environment 4 (New Gold Proficiency Unit 7)

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

   allow      amount      areas      bring      consequences      danger      dying      extinction      fresh      in      known      resistant      shown      so      thought      threat      Through      ways   

We drain wetlands near rivers and coastal to create land for building. deforestation, the large-scale cutting down of trees, the ecosystem that species to survive are changed and the of land available for wildlife decreases. Some species are reduced number that they are in danger of out. At this stage they are as an endangered species and are only one step from total .
We are now beginning to manipulate nature in new , without thought for the possible . Technology now allows us to create strains of plants which are to diseases and which can survive extreme temperature or salinity (salt content). The of this process of genetic engineering is that producing new plants or other living organism like bacteria may disaster as well as apparent advantages, as experience has already .
So with the new millenium, we need a new beginning, a start. We need to reverse the major to our environment. Above all, we need to understand that we cannot go on consuming and polluting with no for tomorrow.