Задание

Read the text and put the sentences into the correct category.

Climate

Recently the climate has changed a lot in our country, especially in its European part. Some scientists think the world is becoming hotter. If you compare Moscow’s winter and summer temperatures at the beginning of the century and at its end you will see that the climate has really changed. Winters have become warmer. Sometimes there is little snow in January, and there were winters when it rained (not snowed!) on New Year’s Eve.

Many people say that it is so because of the greenhouse effect. Have you ever heard about it? It works like this: sunlight gives us heat. Some of the heat warms the atmosphere, and some of the heat goes back into space. Nowadays the air surrounding the earth has become much warmer because the heat can’t go back into space. That’s why winter and summer temperatures in many places have become higher.

During the last 100 years people have produced a lot of carbon dioxide. This gas in the atmosphere works like glass in a greenhouse. It lets heat get in, but it doesn’t let much heat get out. So the atmosphere becomes warmer.

People produce carbon dioxide when they burn things. Trees take this gas from the air, and produce oxygen. But in the last few years, people have cut down and burnt big areas of rainforest. This means there are fewer trees, and, of course, more carbon dioxide!

So, the climate in different parts of the world changes a little from year to year. These changes can be dangerous for our fragile planet which needs protection.

False

True

Trees produce carbon dioxide.

It rained several times on New Year’s Eve.

Changes in climate aren’t dangerous for the planet.

The atmosphere becomes warmer because of carbon dioxide.

Winters have become colder recently.

The climate has changed a lot in our country, especially in its European part.