– Choose the correct answer to the questions below. 1) It is estimated that arctic ice may completely disappear before…..? a) 2100 b) 2500 c) 3000 2) How much of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, approximately? a) 25% b) 45% c) 65% 3) What percentage of the world’s population has no electricity whatsoever? a) 20% b) 30% c) 40% 4) How many litres of water does one person need every day for drinking, cooking, and hygiene? a) 10 b) 30 c) 50 5) In the last 100 years the surface temperature of the Earth has gone up by …..? a) 0.6°C b) 6°C c) 16°C 6) Approximately how many billion people are there in the world? a) 5 b) 6 c) 7
VOCABULARY 1. Can you think of anything that is not provided by the Earth? Look at the sentences and decide whether the sentences are true or false.
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3. Make a list of things you really need in your life. Do these needs up to natural resources? Look at the map of natural resources (pic. 2), and countinue filling in the table like in the example.
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2. Look at the pic.1. Draw a line from each item on the left to the natural resource it came from on the right. Some pictures may match more than one resource, can you find them all? Compare it to the way you and your family usually use natural resources.
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1) Natural resources are the raw materials supplied by nature. 2) Everything produced, used and thrown away originates from natural resources. 3) People can create natural resources. 4) Even though we use natural resources in our daily activities, we often do not even think of them as being resources.
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Lesson Lesson 1 5 UNIT
NATURE NATURE AND CLIMATE AND CLIMATE
