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Grade 9 Environment and Sustainability Vocabulary Worksheet

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A three-page vocabulary worksheet for Grade 9 ESL students covering twelve key environment and sustainability terms. Students match words to definitions, complete sentences, sort words into categories, and write their own sentences using the new vocabulary.

Overview

This worksheet builds a working vocabulary of twelve environment terms — sustainability, renewable energy, recycle, plastic pollution, deforestation, carbon footprint, biodiversity, single-use plastic, endangered species, climate change, conservation, and eco-friendly — through four different activity types rather than repeating the same format four times. Students begin with a matching exercise linking each word to its definition, move to a fill-in-the-blank exercise using the words in context, sort the words into three meaningful categories (Energy and Waste, Nature and Land, The Bigger Picture), and finish with a short personal-writing task using three of the words in their own sentences.

Resource Details

Subject: ESL
Topic: Environment and Sustainability
Category: Worksheets
File Type: PDF
File Size: 52.8 KB
Published: 06 Sep 2026
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Introduce the twelve words first, ideally using this topic's PowerPoint or flashcard-style pre-teaching, before handing out the worksheet. Students can complete the matching and fill-in-the-blank sections independently or in pairs. The sorting activity works well as a brief pair discussion, since students may reasonably disagree about where a borderline word belongs — use this as a discussion opportunity rather than a strict right-or-wrong check. Review the Your Turn sentences together as a class or collect them for a quick vocabulary-in-use check.

Classroom Use

Turn the completed Your Turn sentences into a short "guess the word" game: collect a few anonymous sentences (with the vocabulary word blanked out) and read them aloud for the class to guess which word is missing.

Differentiation

SUPPORT: Allow students to use the word bank as a reference throughout all four sections rather than only for matching, and reduce the Your Turn task to one sentence instead of three.
ON-LEVEL: Students complete all four sections as designed.
CHALLENGE: Ask students to write a fourth Your Turn sentence that uses two vocabulary words in the same sentence, or to write a short definition of a word in their own words rather than copying the worksheet's definition.

Answer Key & Assessment

Collect the completed worksheet and check the matching and fill-in-the-blank sections against the answer key. Review the Your Turn sentences for correct and natural use of the target vocabulary rather than grading them as right or wrong.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to define twelve environment and sustainability vocabulary words.
Students will be able to use the target vocabulary correctly in a sentence.
Students will be able to classify environment vocabulary into logical categories.
Students will be able to write original sentences using target vocabulary.

Teacher Tips

For the Sort the Words activity, ask one or two pairs to justify a borderline choice (for example, whether "carbon footprint" belongs with energy or with the bigger picture) out loud to the class — it turns a simple sorting task into a genuine vocabulary discussion.