ZHAW Proficiency XII

It was this ____ style ofthought which led to a science-based technology.

REVOLUTION
 

Scientific knowledge was not in itself seen as a ____ forthe earliersystem of trial and error, but it did help the technical ____ to see which path of experimentation might be more ____.

PLACE, INNOVATE, FRUIT
 

With the industrialisation of the nineteenth century, the bond between science and technology ____.

STRONG
 

In our own time, the mutual ____  of one discipline upon the other has increased still further.

RELY
 

Human activity made its mark on land use and ____ in coastal regions of southern Europe long before the first ____  holidays arrived.

VEGETATE, PACK
 

By classical times, these areas had already seen extensive ____ by natural and human activity, and the process continues today.

ERODE

The hospitable climate of the area, long appreciated in literature as well as holiday brochures, produces seasonal variations in levels of soil ____ and consequently in plant growth.

MOIST
 

In an area where ____ occur frequently, there was a distinctive soil type at one time, with plants which had adapted to it. Nowadays though, this soil cover is no longer in ____ anywhere in the region.

DRY, EXIST
 

The early years of the 1980s were ____ dry and this exacerbated problems brought about by the ____ growth of industry in rural areas and the intensification of agriculture.

EXCEPT, SUBSTANCE

Pollution and insufficient water supplies have become problems to which the landscape is increasingly ____. The more recently this type of land has fallen out of use, the longer it takes for plant cover to reestablish itself.

SENSE
 

The European Union has set up a programme of ____  into land degradation in southern Europe, involving forty-four universities in the ____  of data which can be used to inform the policy decisions needed to deal with the issue.

SEARCH, GATHER