🌱 Target Vocabulary (Unit Words)

Use these 10 essential words to discuss agriculture, crop protection, and seed storage:

Connect an abstract noun directly to a full statement using that. Choose the noun that matches the mood of the sentence:

1. Proper cold temperature keeps seeds in a state of ____ (dormant) until scientists are ready to plant them.

Hint: Change the adjective dormant into its noun form.

2. The facility provides long-term ____ (store) for thousands of rare crop varieties.

Hint: Change the verb store into its noun form.

3. When environmental conditions become warm and wet, healthy seeds begin to ____ (germination).

Hint: Change the noun germination into its verb form.

4. Staff members are carefully ____ (catalogue) every sample received from agricultural researchers.

Hint: Put the verb catalogue into the continuous (-ing) form.

5. Biologists have built a vast ____ (collect) of crop species to protect global food supplies.

Hint: Change the verb collect into a noun.

1. Scientists focus on breeding plant varieties that can ________ extreme weather conditions.

2. A devastating fungal ________ destroyed entire potato crops across the region.

3. Researchers are working to grow ________ crop species that resist both disease and drought.

4. Farmers use natural methods to protect fields from agricultural ________ that eat young shoots.

5. Without sufficient rainfall during summer, fragile seedlings begin to ________ within days.

1. ____ ([Phrase]), governments should provide public funding for state-of-the-art seed banks.

2. Seed repositories safeguard biological diversity. ____ ([Phrase]), they also offer a vital backup supply when natural disasters strike.

3. Some people say seed banks cost too much money. ____ ([Phrase]), others say the cost is small next to the harm of losing a crop for good.

4. Fewer farmers plant old local varieties each year. ____ ([Phrase]), many of those varieties are close to vanishing.

5. Many facilities preserve rare agricultural samples. ____ ([Phrase]), one small bank may hold only seeds of local beans.

Paraphrase: The long-term ____ (target word) of seeds inside underground facilities protects plant species from extinction.

Use the noun form of 'store'.

Paraphrase: ____ (adjective) crops are able to withstand severe climate conditions and destructive pests.

Use a unit word meaning 'strong/tough'.

Paraphrase: There is a growing ____ (abstract noun) that fungal blights could devastate global food production.

Use the target grammar structure noun + that-clause (a feeling that something bad may happen).

1. Agricultural reports warn that there is a severe ________ that extreme heat will reduce harvest yields this decade.

Context: Refers to a dangerous possibility in the future.

2. Farmers currently have little concrete ________ that preserving ancient seeds guarantees immediate financial profit.

Context: Refers to facts, data, or proof.

3. The positive ________ that the national seed vault had expanded its capacity brought relief to agricultural researchers.

Context: Refers to newly reported information or announcement.