Green issues. Functional skills, PISA task

Read the text and choose the right option in each gap. Methuselah is a 4,852- year-old Great Basin (Pinus longaeva) tree growing high in the White of Inyo County in eastern California. The growing , cold temperatures, dry soils, high winds, and short growing seasons are severe facts. The trees grow very slowly, a bristlecone pine may add to its girth no more than an inch per century, which makes their wood very and resistant to disease and resistant insects invasion fungi, and other potential pests. Scientists have shown that bristlecones change little as they grow older, much of its vascular cambium layer may die. Methuselah’s age was in 1957 by Edmund Schulman, a from the University of Arizona. Schulman had spent the 20 years , travelling around the United States to find unusual, ancient, and undiscovered trees. Schulman hit the when he visited the White Mountains and found that many of the trees were over 4,000 years old. One tree stood out and at the time was 4,789 years old. Schulman dubbed this tree Methuselah, after the oldest person in the Bible who lived to 969 years.

After reading the text try to remember new vocabulary.

Choose the right answer among all suggested. Professor Schulman named the unique tree Methuselah after ... .

After reading the text, give the right answer to the question. Continue the sentence. The current location of the oldest pine is the White Mountains, Inyo County, ... .

Choose the right variant. The current age of Methuselah is ... .

Match the words and their translations.

Watch the video about China. Write the terms in English (use the punctual marks - commas). орошение, испарение, лесной массив, опустынивание

Watch the video and choose the right answer to the statement. "The ammount of trees are increasing according to people's efforts and cooperation."

Watch the video about the environmental protection in China. Choose the right statements.

Try to recollect the chronology of events from the video and put them in the right order.