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Liu054 Polar Bears

The document discusses the threats facing polar bears, primarily due to climate change rather than hunting. It highlights the reduction of Arctic sea ice and the bears' reliance on this ice for hunting seals and traveling. The text emphasizes the dangers polar bears face as they are forced to swim longer distances due to diminishing ice, leading to increased drowning incidents.

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Liu054 Polar Bears

The document discusses the threats facing polar bears, primarily due to climate change rather than hunting. It highlights the reduction of Arctic sea ice and the bears' reliance on this ice for hunting seals and traveling. The text emphasizes the dangers polar bears face as they are forced to swim longer distances due to diminishing ice, leading to increased drowning incidents.

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B2 Polar Bears LIU054

Choose the best option for each blank.

Polar bears are in (1) ___________________ of dying out. (2) ___________________ some other
endangered animals, it's not hunters that are the problem, it's climate change. Since 1979, the ice
cap at the Arctic Circle where polar bears live has (3) ___________________ in size by about 30 per cent.
The temperature in the Arctic has slowly been (4) ___________________ and this is (5)
___________________ the sea ice to melt, endangering the polar bears' home.

The polar bears' main (6) ___________________ of food are the different types of seal found in the
Arctic. They catch them by waiting next to the air holes the seals have
(7) ___________________ in the ice. (8) ___________________ the bears are very strong swimmers, they
could never catch seals in the water. This means that the bears (9) ___________________ do rely on the
ice to hunt.

Polar bears also need sea ice to travel. They can (10) ___________________ a huge territory and often
swim from one part of the ice to another. They have been (11) ___________________ to swim up to
100km, but when there is less ice, they may have to swim further, and this can (12) ________________
fatal to the bears. A number of bears have drowned in the last few years and scientists believe that
it is because they were not able to (13) ___________________ more sea ice before they became too
tired and couldn't swim any further.

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