Environment (task 2, p. 150) 11th

a) the air, water and land where people, animals and plants live

                [ecology, the environment, rainforest]

b) the way in wchich plants, animals and natural features of a place affect and depended on each other

               [climate change, ecology, global warming]

c) the natural home of a plant or animal

                [the environment, the food chain, habitat]

d) the natural system in which, for example, an insect eats a plant, a bird, etc. with the result that all these different forms of life depend on each other

               [the food chain, habitat, rainforest]

e) general increase in the temperature of the world, caused by pollution from cars, factories, etc.                  [global warming, thye ozon layer, climate change]

f) changes in the weather around the world, which result in much higher or lower temperatures, violent storms, floods, etc

               [climate change, global warming, deforestation]

g) the gradual warming of the Earth caused by pollution that stops heat from leaving the Earth's atmosphere

                      [endangered species, deforestation, the greenhouse effect]

h) a layer of natural gases around the Earth. The ozone layer protects the Earth from the harmful effects of the sun, but pollution is causing a hole in it

                [global warming, ecology, the ozone layer]

i) a tropical forest with tall trees growing very close together, in an area where it rains a lot. It's very important for the balance of the Earth's ecology

                [rainforest, the ozone layer, deforestation]

j) a situation, in which most of the trees in area are cut down or destroyed, resulting in great damage to the environment                    [endangered species, the food chain, deforestation]

k) a tipe of plant or animal that is likely to stop existing completely, for example because of hunting or pollution                       [global warming, the greenhouse effect, endangered species]