UNIT 26 REHABILITATION

TASK 1: Fill in the gaps: “biodiversity”, “habitats”, “protect”, “quarry” and “wetland”

Rehabilitation

Quarries can be restored to create new habitats and recreational facilities. Many restored
gravel quarries are now used as water sports facilities, while new wetland areas may enhance
biodiversity. Elsewhere, large areas of floodplains from which minerals have been extracted
have been left as, washlands, areas that can store water during periods of intense rain to
protect inhabited areas from inundation. If a quarry is intended for restoration to a wetland
after use consideration needs to be taken of the potential for birds attracted by water to cause
a hazard to aircraft. Specific design criteria may be needed to ensure that certain species of
bird are not encouraged.

TASK 2: Match the sentence parts.

Aggregate producers should perform rehabilitation 1 Must be completed where aggregate

reserves have been exhausted. A

Progressive rehabilitation means 2 As they extract the sites B

The maximum boring depth 3 Rehabilitation done sequentially within a

reasonable time after extraction C

1B 2C 3A

TASK 3: Complete the sentences parts of form statements about rehabilitation.

1. Rehabilitation means restoration of the soil to improve, ensure the productivity

agricultural.
2. Rehabilitation means encouraging biodiversity because It encourages the
creation of new habitats for human beings.
3. Rehabilitation is beneficial because It allows evolver to its initial state of the
area where various papers have been and have various facilities.
TASK 5:

Why is biodiversity on important factor to the functioning of our natural

ecosystem?

Because the life in our planet depends of the species biological that live in the Earth.
The flora and fauna provide us with food, energy, ingredients for medicines, raw
material for various activities.

TASK 6:

Explain or give why the extinction one species can have great impacts on the
balance of our ecosystem?

The extinction of or more species modify ecosystem and this brings as a

consequences lack of balance in the proliferation of other species still exist: animal
plants or both; also affect the human.

An example is excessive cut down, producing dramatic changes in the climate: the
rains and temperature high in different parts of the Earth. The solutions more
obvious is the handling and use moderate of them resources plant, animals and
minerals.