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Beyond Carbon: Understanding Your Ecological Footprint | Reading Comprehension
This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text explores the broader impact of human activities on the environment beyond just carbon emissions. It delves into the concept of ecological footprints, which measure the demand placed on Earth’s ecosystems by individuals, communities, and nations. This text highlights the importance of recognizing how our choices—from the food we eat to the energy we use—contribute to resource consumption and environmental degradation.
This worksheet is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including:
a true or false exercise
comprehension questions
a multiple-choice exercise
a crossword
a word search exercise
a definitions match
This resource can be used as a mini-lesson, assigned for homework, or used for vocabulary-building purposes.
Total number of pages: 9
Answer key: included