16. Read the following international words from text 6 :
human, natural processes, authors, experiments, atmosphere, globally, dynamics of ecological systems, effects, geographic area, to intensify, erosion, globalization, pathogens, project.
17. Read and translate the following nets of the English words:
to connect – connected - connecting - interconnected - connectivity - connections; ecology – ecologist – ecological - ecologically; nature – natural – naturally; local – locally – locations - to localize; science – scientific – scientist; research – researcher – researching; to observe – observations – observer - observatory.
18. Translate the following word combinations. Pay attention to the prepositions:
at the continental scale, a range of scales,a vast scale of space and time,via an atmosphere, movement of water, transport ofgoods locally to globally, among ecologists, across the continent, throughout the country, over $120 billion per year, by experiment, from seconds to decades, within ecosystems.