B2 Environment Vocabulary: Pollution, Waste and Renewable Energy
This B2 Environment Vocabulary module covers 50 words for the environmental problems people argue about and the solutions they propose — smog, sewage, oil spills, logging and overfishing on one side; solar, wind farms, compost, insulation and biodegradable packaging on the other. Every word comes with flashcards, a word-formation drill, a collocations match and a twelve-question quiz, free and self-scoring.
- 50 words
- 4 practice modes
- 12-question quiz
- Free progress tracking
- No sign-up
What’s inside this module
Four stages: meet the words, build other forms from them, pair them with the words they normally go with, then test yourself.
Flashcards
Fifty cards, each with the word, its part of speech, a B2 definition, an example sentence, and up to three typical collocations on the back — rising sea levels, disposable packaging, clean up an oil spill. Rate each card “I knew it” or “Still learning” and your ratings are saved automatically.
Word formation
Eight gap sentences that ask for a different form of a word you have just met: deplete becomes depletion, threat becomes threaten, survival becomes survive, awareness becomes aware. This one runs in both directions, noun to verb as often as verb to noun.
Collocations & phrases
Ten pairs from the way the topic is actually written about: single-use plastic, raw sewage, a carbon footprint, a wildlife sanctuary, impose a ban, a wind turbine, raise public awareness.
12-question quiz
A mix of multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank, with an explanation after every answer, right or wrong. Your best score is saved automatically.
How to get the most from it
Five habits that make B2 vocabulary stick, not just pass a quiz.
Learn each problem with its solution
Litter goes with a ban, plastic goes with reuse and biodegradable, coal goes with solar and wind farms. Learning them in pairs is what lets you write a balanced paragraph instead of a list of complaints, and a balanced paragraph is what B2 writing tasks are marked on.
Some of these are fixed phrases
Global warming, the ozone layer, acid rain, sea level, single-use plastic and a carbon footprint do not accept substitutions. Global heating and acid water are both understandable and both wrong, which is why they sit in the collocations section rather than the flashcards alone.
Keep the noun and the verb apart
Consumption and consume, depletion and deplete, threat and threaten, survival and survive. This topic is full of pairs where an essay sentence needs one and a spoken sentence needs the other, which is exactly why the word-formation section leans on them so heavily.
Come back for the re-deal
After you finish the flashcard deck, it automatically rebuilds itself from just the words marked “still learning.” A short second pass on the hard ones is worth more than repeating the whole deck.
Use one this week
Take one environmental problem you actually care about and write three sentences on it with words from this deck: one for the cause, one for the effect, one for what could be done. That shape is worth more than another pass through the cards.
More environment vocabulary
The C1 module takes the same topic into ecology and policy language. Geography covers the landscape these problems happen in, and Science covers how they get measured.