Destination C1/C2 – Unit 12 – Vocabulary Test 2

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has been involved in ______ since its foundation in 1961.

______, the WWF work hard to ensure that animals such as the giant panda will survive for a few more years yet.

Refusing to accept that the problems are ______, the WWF works tirelessly on a never-ending list of projects.

The former uses ______ products mostly for local consumption, while the latter barters them or sells them for a market.

The probability of ______ is dependent, in part, on the initial starting densities of hosts and parasites.

______ as it may seem, some exist at temperatures exceeding 80°C in geysers and hot springs.

That kind of ______ change may actually benefit the extremophiles.

The government aims to help those animals ______ by the destruction of habitats.

The expedition travelled miles in search of the ______ mountain gorilla.

The ______ of the cliffs by the sea has completely changed the landscape.

I'm not convinced that there's a ______ link between pollution and global warming.

The ______ was plainly to frighten the ruler into making his request at once.

We have to wait for ______ conditions to launch the boat.

The chances against this kind of unusual ______ are very high.

However, the discovery of extremophiles has forced a ______ of that view.

There is, for instance, intriguing evidence that ______ tiny procedural differences can make a large difference to behavior.

The police are investigating the ______ disappearance from the zoo of a number of animals.

The organization is working very closely with both expert ______ and ordinary local people.

The latter will, however, ______ gather more substance from following industry reports than this book.

Most species of larger animals are ______ by global warming.

Female animals have an ______ need to protect their young.

Following the ______ of the volcano, hundreds of villages were destroyed.

Extremophiles are bacteria that survive, and even thrive, in ______ impossible conditions.

We knew that getting between the whale and the ship was ______, but it was the only way to stop them hunting.

Other bacteria as extremophiles live in the freezing conditions of the Antarctic ______.