Standards Check Written Comprehension 1 Read the article, Then tick (/)T ue), F (false) oF DS (the text doesn't say) ‘and how plastic rubbis nly, however, many people ha ying to stop the damage and is polluting our towns and citi ting the ovea restore our plane's environment 8 90 o struction of natural habitats, We hear how the burning of fossil nat about the world beyond our planet? Every year, ments and private organisations send sataite ets TF (ps ol ariling is contaminating the oceans: 2, Satellites that aren't used are recycled 3. Our knowledge about the weather s increased because of satelites 4. A satelite costs less than a milion dollars. 5. Not many people think we néed to do something bout the problem, | 6, Satelites are important for mobile phones. 7, Space litter can move Veny fast 8. There's some danger for people from space lite. 2 Answer the questions, Ho systems are sateltes important for? any satelites ae stil in use? y 's space litter a problem for other satelite? Oral into space. These satelites increase our knowledge of other pata ‘and have other important uses, su communication, 04 Listen etworks. They're also a malor source 1. weather and any developments in global warming Government space agencies have sent about 8,000 satelites an) 2. H other pec pment ino space and about 3,000 ae stil active. $0 00 satelite that are no sa iongerin use become space liter. Some of « this ‘small-—ess than a millimetre in size - but some : pieces are bigger than two buses. These pieces can moveat km) per second and ar destroying any active satelite th crash into, This is abi sm because as well as giving us important information, each satelite costs milions of dolas, i aso risky forall of us because sometimes ace liter falls back to Earth. It's now generally reed that we need to take action, but in reality, ye do about our space liter? Written Production 3 Write a post for the comments section of the article Rubbish! Say why you think space litter is or isn’t imp ‘compared with other challenges to the environment. Ad {ideas you might have about how to improve the situation ‘COMMENTS