Exercise 1: The environment

 The environment

1Complete each gap with the correct form of the words in the box. 

MOVE
• contaminate
• relocate
• devastate
• die out
• evacuate
• spread
• survive
• preserve
• wash away

• 1They couldn't go into the water because the sea was .

• 2People were warned to  the town because of the floods.

• 3Scientists are worried that some animals might  completely by 2025.

• 4Without the use of mosquito nets and drugs, malaria will  in the village.

• 5We need to  the environment for the next generation.

• 6Residents were  after their homes burnt down in the forest fires.

• 7The beach was completely  by the oil spill.

• 8The crops were destroyed after so little rain and none of the animals .

• 9The rain  the dirt on the road.