9th form "Threats to Environment" Reading p. 47 - 48

1. It's clear that people are responsible for destroying trees on the planet.

2. Some rainforests disappear because of people's needs in places for living.

3. Half of all the rainforests is destroyed for firewood.

4. Forests are supposed to be just a collection of trees.

5. The only task of the forests is to give a shelter for many species of plants and animals.

6. Landslides and mountain torrents can often happen becauseof unrestricted cutting of forests.

7. There are a lot of facts about seriuos disasters at the end of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st cuntury.

8. The 21st century is supposed to have the hardest of all the disasters happened before.

9. The nuclear power plants are built in every country of the world practically each year.

10. The accident in Chernobyl is supposed to be the worst one in nuclear power history.

11. After the accident in Chernobyl only the territory of Ukraine was radioactively contaminated.

12. Nuclear power plants cause a great harmboth people's health and environment.