2. Complete the compound nouns in the fact file with the words below. Use a dictionary to help you. Then listen and check your answers.

climate     fossil     global     greenhouse     ice     rain     renewable     sea     surface

GLOBAL WARMING FACT FILE  The Earth is heating up. The average (1)_________temperature is 0.75°C higher now than it was 100 years ago.  When we burn ? fuels, they give off (3) _________gases like carbon dioxide (CO2). This causes (4)_______warming. We have cut down over 50% of the Earth's (5) _________forests in the last 6O years. Those are imporfant because they remove CO2 from the atmosphere and add oxygen. They are also home to over half of the world's plant and animal species. Some scientists believe that by 2050, about 3500 of all plant and animal species could die out because of (6)__________ change. (7) __________ levels are rising and the polar (8) ____________caps are melting. Sclentists say that fossil fuels like coal and gas may run out by the year 3000. 5o we need to develop alternafives, such as (9)____________ energy and nuclear energy.