MWC022 - The Great Barrier Reef - Missing Word Cloze

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

Complete the text by filling in the missing words. There are TWO words you will not need.


arrived - atmosphere - environment - global - living - oceans - pity - plants - pollution - society - space - survived - system - valued


The Great Barrier Reef is the earth's largest reef .At a length of over 2,500 km it is the largest structure. You can even see it from . However, the reef is in danger of dying. Because of global the temperature in the keeps rising. This also affects the water temperature. When the get too warm the colourful reefs turn grey and die.The reef is also dying from caused by factories on the Australian and Indonesian coasts.


It's a that we don't care about the the ways the Aborigines did thousands of years ago. They respected nature, the animals and  around them. They never killed more animals than they could eat. However,  when Europeans   in Australia they destroyed a lot of things that the Aborigines .