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-sytem
Examples: ________________________________________________________________
Meanings: ________________________________________________________________
Now, in the light of what you have just searched for, what is the definition of these words?
Recycle: ___________________________________________________________
Precycle: ___________________________________________________________
Ecosystem: __________________________________________________________
In order to preserve our ecosystems, precycling and recycling are master words. We can all watch
out what we are buying, and what we are throwing away. Thus the Earth and its inhabitants can all be
healthier and live in a balanced world where there are not many nasty surprises, where we all can feel safer.
Sometimes it takes only a few minutes per day to avoid accumulating too much waste; maybe it just takes a
conversation with your neighbors. Maybe you can end up filling up a trash bag only once a month, and,
like some families, you could even get to fill up a trash bag once every five years only! Imagine never
have to worry about trash anymore? Would you like that?
Well! IT IS possible
Vocabulary:
A syllable is a group of letters forming a sound. Example: [ood] in ‘wood’, ‘food’, ‘hood’. Fill in
the answers to the clues by using all the syllables in the Syllabox. Syllables can be used several times.
Syllabox
RON ECO ZONE TION DE POLLU EN LOGY RE FILL TINC TION SYSTEM MENT
GRA DANGER BIO LAND ABLE TANT CYCLE VIR OZ EX
1)
----------------------------------------------: Protects the earth
2)
----------------------------------------------: Close to disappearance
3)
----------------------------------------------: Site for wastes
4)
----------------------------------------------: Life cycles
5)
----------------------------------------------: Where we live
6)
----------------------------------------------: Can be reused
7)
----------------------------------------------: Can decompose in nature
8)
----------------------------------------------: End
9)
----------------------------------------------: Man creates it
10)
----------------------------------------------: Causes harm to the environment
11)
----------------------------------------------: Can decompose
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Things you can do for the environment:
Letters of the words are mixed up. Unscramble the words below.
1) VEAS: --------------------------
2) ECLYEERC: ------------------
3) ESOISDP: ------------------------
4) EEUSR: ----------------------------
5) TREWI: ------------------------
6) LTUIAESN: ---------------------
7) TTOECRP: -----------------------
8) TPNLA: -------------------------
9) VTRNEEP: -------------------
10) NALER: --------------------------
11) PUTRPSO: -----------------------
12) STOMPOC: ------------------
Trash in calculation:
1) The U.S. generates 160 million tons of solid waste a year, enough to fill a line of 10-ton garbage trucks
half way to the moon.
How many times around the Earth could that make?
Answer: ________________________________________________
2) In the US, people produce 5 pounds of garbage for each individual every day. How many pounds that
makes per year?
Answer: _________________________________________________
3) Each household throws away 13, 000 pieces of paper a year.
How many is it per day? Round it:
Answer: _______________________________________________
4) In one year, we discard enough plastic soda bottles and milk jugs, enough to fill a line of dump trucks to
cover a distance between New York and Cleveland.
How many miles are there?
Answer: _______________________________________________
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