Environmental destruction

1	to face an ecological catastrophe (calamity, disaster, collapse)
2	to slide into an ecological catastrophe
3	to stave off an ecological catastrophe
4	to repair the ecological damage
5	environmental degradation
6	the scale of devastation
7	the destruction of ecosystems
8	negative anthropogenic influence
9	to erode the fabric of the soil
10	to upset the biological balance
11	to abuse nature
12	to exert influence on biosphere / ocean biota
13	to affect the environment
14	to have adverse (irreversible, tremendous, disastrous, uncontrolled) effect /impact on smb / smth
15	to be fraught with fatal consequence [frO:t]
16	to diminish harmful influence
17	unrestricted industrialization / urbanization
18	to feel a pressing necessity to change the character of interaction between man and nature

AIR

1	water cycle
2	carbon cycling
3	watery vapour
4	release of carbon
5	condensation of vapour
6	oxygen
7	precipitation (rainfalls; snowfalls)
8	atmospheric winds
9	precipitation patterns
10	ozone layer
11	solar irradiance
12	ultraviolet emission /radiation

LAnd

1	mineral resources
2	fossil fuels
3	a volcano
4	volcanic activity: swelling, eruption, the flow of lava
5	Polar ice sheets
6	glaciers
7	global vegetation
8	vegetation pattern
9	land/desert vegetation
10	rainforests
11	cultivated land
12	derelict land
13	open land
14	"green" belts
15	recreation areas
16	coastal areas
17	decomposition of living/organic matter

WATER

1	air-sea exchange
2	global sea level
3	marine life
4	ocean biota
5	ocean currents
6	ocean sediments
7	(fresh) water supplies

WILDLIFE

1	animal kingdom / animal population
2	biodiversity (variety of plant and animal life)
3	a species / species
4	habitats
5	extinction of animals and plants
6	to outstrip the planet's regenerative rate
7	self-regenerating capacity of the biosphere
8	to undergo mass destruction

TASK 6. You are going to read a newsletter about different kinds of pollution. Nine sentences have been removed from the newsletter. Choose from the sentences A-J the one which fits each gap (1-9). There is one extra sentence that you do not need to use.