Nature and wildlife; Phrases with at – B1 English Vocabulary Test

1  Find 11 nature and wildlife words in the word snake.

creaturesuomcropsgtendangeredredenvironmentnatuhabitatwilhumanstighuntingatjunglecrolandscapeendapopulationjunglrainforest

2  Match the words from Exercise 1 to these definitions.

1   the natural place where something lives: ……habitat……

2   a forest with a lot of tall trees where it rains a lot: ………………….

3   the sport of killing animals: ………………….

4   an area of land, and how it looks: ………………….

5    plants such as rice or wheat, which farmers grow in large amounts: ………………….

6   the number of people living in a place: ………………….

7   animals or plants which might die out soon: ………………….

8   men, women and children: ………………….

9   the air, land or water where people and animals live: ………………….

10   things that live, which are not plants: ………………….

3  Complete the sentences with words from Exercise 1.

1   Too many cars and too much pollution can have a negative effect on the ……environment…… .

2   The …………………. of China is 1.5 billion.

3   The natural …………………. of the orangutan is the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia.

4   The tiger is now …………………. – there are fewer than 4,000 in the wild.

5   …………………. have been on the Earth for around 200,000 years.

6   Too much, or not enough, rain is bad for …………………., and can stop them growing.

4  Complete the sentences with a phrase with at.

1   I’ve finished my essay ……at long last…… .

2   There are …………………. 127 million people in Japan.

3   …………………., people hunted animals for food. Now they do it for sport.

4   This beautiful landscape shows Italy …………………. .

5   Many sea creatures are …………………. because of plastic waste.

6   When I got home, I switched on the TV …………………. .

7   …………………., there are only around 70,000 orangutans left in the wild.

5  Choose the correct options.

As our 1……………… increases, there is more pressure on the 2……………… . At 3………………, one of the biggest problems is plastic waste. At 4……………… 8 million tonnes of plastic enters the ocean every year, and we aren’t doing 5……………… to clear it up. The oceans, of course, are the 6……………… of a huge number of 7………………, such as fish, dolphins and 8……………… species of whale. Many of them eat this plastic. When a fish, for example, eats some plastic, a bird might eat it 9……………… . The bird will then be at 10……………… of dying, because it can’t eat proper food 11……………… – its stomach is full of plastic. Not only that, but when 12……………… eat these fish, the plastic can enter our stomachs, too.

1 A population     B humans     C environment

2 A nature     B environment     C jungle

3 A first     B risk     C present

4 A least     B once     C first

5 A too     B very     C enough

6 A hunting     B habitat     C crops

7 A creatures     B endangered     C hunting

8 A hunting     B endangered     C creatures

9 A later     B suddenly     C finally

10 A least     B risk     C present

11 A any more     B any good     C anything

12 A creatures     B risk     C humans