UNIT TWO:POVERTY AND WORLD RESOURCES.

DISCOVERING THE LANGUAGE As YOU READ

01/ Listen and fill in the gaps to complete the wordmap.

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BIODIVERSITY

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BIODIVERSITY

Biodiversity is a term that represents the total …..1……….of all life on earth. That's a big thing to sum up.Thousands of
different world habitats ,millions of different…..2…………. Billions of differents individuals . And trillions of different
characteristics they all have.

The total biodiversity of our planet is immense. Which is a good thing because the more biodiversity , the more secure
all life on earth is , including ourselves. Only when life at its most varied, vigorous , biodiverse can we hope to thrive. We
may not know it , but we need touring forests accross one third-1/3- of the land surface to lock away the carbon and keep
the ….3………….stable.

We need millions of poly natures and billions of soil …….4…………..and mega tons of to make the food we eat and
supply. We need strange palms deep in jungles to create our medecines and mango swamps to protect the coasts we depend
upon. Our ………..5………'s biodiversity provides all the things we need for free .But it twill only do if there's lots of it and
at the same moment, it's under attack. In the last fifty years, our activities have dramatically ………6………..biodiversity
accross the globe.

We've snuffed out habitats of wild animals by sixty -60-percent and even driven whole species extinct.The number of
lions in Africa has dropped by 65%.The number of individual flying insects in Europe has dropped by 75%.The number of
Blue Fin Tuna in the Pacific dropped by 95%. Biodiversity is dropping everywhere and fast. This is …..7………………for
nature and therefore, ourselves. We talk about climate change a lot but biodiversity LOSS is as important issue. How do we
stop this loss of life?

2/ What is biodiversity?

3/Why is biodiversity good for us?

4/Why do we need forests?

5/Why do we need strange palms?

6/What does the pronoun "our " in paragraph 04 refer to:

07/In which paragraph the statistics about biodiversity loss is mentioned ?

Variety species climate organisms planet reduced catastrophic loss