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    Antarctic Ice – Vocabulary Practice

    drawing of penguin in Antarctica

    Here you can practice the vocabulary found in our ESL lesson about Antarctic ice.

    In the first exercise, you must guess the meaning of the bold word from the context of the example sentence. In the second exercise, you must choose the correct form of the word to complete the sentence. Good luck!

    Vocabulary in Context:

    1. Heat from the sun causes ice and snow to melt.




    2. As the sun got hotter, the temperature began to rise.




    3. After three days of heavy rain, the river began to flood the nearby roads and houses.




    4. Satellites take pictures of the Earth from far away to help scientists study the weather.




    5. The storm caused unexpected damage to the town. Nobody thought it would be so bad.




    6. The city’s growth rate is increasing; more and more people are coming to the city faster than before.




    7. In cold places, you can see glaciers in the mountains.




    8. The number of polar bears is starting to shrink as the ice disappears.




    9. Part of the building began to collapse after the earthquake shook it.




    10. The city has seen rapid growth in the number of people living there in the past year.




    Word Forms:

    1. As the ice in the glacier _______________, more water flows into the river.

    a. melts
    b. melted
    c. melting

    2. The price of food _______________ quickly last year.

    a. rise
    b. rose
    c. risen

    3. Sea levels have _______________ faster than scientists predicted.

    a. rose
    b. rising
    c. risen

    4. After days of heavy rain, the town was damaged by a _______________.

    a. flooding
    b. flood
    c. flooded

    5. Scientists _______________ temperatures to keep increasing each year.

    a. expectation
    b. expectedly
    c. expect

    6. The team’s _______________ was that the project would be done by Friday.

    a. expected
    b. expectation
    c. expect

    7. The ice on the mountain slowly _______________ because of warmer weather.

    a. shrank
    b. shrinking
    c. shrink

    8. The building _______________ five years ago.

    a. collapse
    b. collapsed
    c. collapsing

    9. The city _______________ quickly after the new factory opened.

    a. grew
    b. growth
    c. growing

    10. There was strong economic _______________ in the country last year.

    a. grew
    b. growing
    c. growth

    When you’re finished the vocabulary exercise, you can do the reading lesson about Antarctic ice.