Environmental Problems

Vsevolod Yakimov

Grade 6Б

Teacher: E.R. Sibirina

The most serious environmental problems are:

1. Pollution in its many forms;
2.  Noise from cars, buses, planes, etc.;
3.  Destruction of wildlife and the beauty of the countryside.;
4.  Shortage of natural resources;
5.  The growth of population.

There is no ocean or sea which is not used as a dump.

Many rivers and lakes are poisoned, too.

It happens so because factories and plants produce a lot of waste and pour it into rivers. So they poison the water.

The most of the pollution in big cities comes from cars and buses.

More and more often people are told not to spend too much time in direct sunlight, because ultraviolet radiation from the sun can cause skin cancer.

Nuclear power stations can go wrong and causenuclear pollution.

To make air clean again we need good filtersat nuclear power stations, at factories and plants and also in cars and buses.

To solve environmental problems we should

Answer these questions

1. What does the word environment mean?
2. What are the most serious environmental problems?
3. Where does air pollution in the cities mostly come from?
4. Why is it not safe to be in direct sunlight in certain places?
5. Why are nuclear power stations dangerous?