9th form Natural Disasters (vocabulary practice)

1. Natural disasters have begun to occur in Ukraine with increasing ____.

2. After _____ floods in Zakarpattya storms and tornados have also come their way.

3. Information about the ____ of people killed by lightning is more frequent in different parts of Ukraine.

4. Until ____, we only heard of such disasters occuring on the other side of the Atlantic.

5. And what are the ____ of natural disasters which are becoming more frequent in our country?

6. Not waiting for the scientists' explanations, people say this is our ____.

7. During the last 50 years a great deal of forests in the Carpathians have been cut down. Deforestation has led to ____ in local climate.

8. That's why we have so much ____ with floods in the region.

9. The scientists _____ us that all elements and systems are interconnected in nature.

10. ____ attitude to it might lead to terrible results.

11. The ____ of natural disasters - lives lost, homes destroyed, economics disrupted...

12. One way or another, we should build stronger, safer communities that are _____ to natural disasters.