Disposal, Effects, Pollutants, Spiecies, Acceleration, Explosions, Threatens, Deteriorates, Vegetation, Non-biodegradable, , Pesticides, Pollution, Thoughtless, Extinction, Depletion, Purification, Hazardous,Insecticides, Undermines, Environment, the World Health Organization, Fertilizers, Ozone screen, Distruction.
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1. Man cannot interfere in nature and try to change it without taking into account possible negative ____ of his economic activity.
2. Many ecologists consider that the disappearance of particular living ____
constitutes the main ecological and social problem of the day.
3. The problem of environmental ____ is the problem of turning man’s ____ and
uncontrolled impact on nature into purposeful and planned interaction with the latter.
4. The world’s famous biologists warn about the ____ of animals and plants on a scale much greater than their both natural and man-caused extinction during the preceding millions of years.
5. If this massive biological ____ of the Earth’s resources goes on uncontrolled for several decades to come, the world____ will change irreversibly.
6. The____ and rational ____ of domestic and industrial wastes and conservation of nature are a matter of general state policy in many countries.
7. ____ coming from industrial centers in Eastern Europe affect forests , rivers, ponds and lakes there.
8. Where the trees have been cut down there are also local changes in the microclimate, in the ____ , and in the fauna.
9. More complicated chemical processing of raw materials yields new types of waste products that are ____ and ____ .
10. Our planet is a balanced system that can be easily damaged by negative anthropogenic influence which ____ to disrupt nature’s basic cycles and ____ the self-regenerating capacities of biosphere and its individual components.
11. According to ___ the pollution of the environment through chemical, physical and biological agents leads to pathological changes in heredity, ____ vital activities and reproductive functions of individuals and causes their genetic degeneration.
12. The usage of ___, ___ and ___ contaminate agricultural lands and water bodies.
13. Certain counter measures against the depletion of ___ can stop the ___ of global warming.
14. Deliberate ___ of ecosystems was practiced by the USA during its aggression in Vietnam.
15. During nuclear ___ a large amount of nitrogen oxides will be released into the atmosphere.