What are the corresponding words?
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 507.
Form nouns from the following verbs and find the sentences in the text with these new words.
-ion, -ation, -tion, -sion, -ssion суффиксы абстрактных существительных
e.g. to form (образовывать) – formation (образование)
| to oxide | to crystallize |
| to ferment | to preserve |
| to decompose | to evolve |
| to reduce | to petrify |
| to impregnate | to imply |
2.6 Put a preposition in each of the numbered spaces:
1. Fossils referred ____ anything dug out of the ground.
2. The slow process of oxidation takes place ____ the presence of oxygen.
3. Decaying organisms are sometimes preserved ____ sediments.
4. An increase ____ pressure causes the sediments to become compacted and lithified.
5. Fossils are restricted ____ sedimentary environment.
6. Carbonization plays a special role ____ the preservation of plant fossils.
| 1. to show | 6. without something |
| 2. to oppose | 7. to rise |
| 3. to change | 8. to fall into small parts |
| 4. to keep in a good state | 9. to change from one form to another |
| 5. ultimate | 10. continental |
2.8 Choose between the alternatives to complete these sentences:
The word fossil carries a distinct/distinctlyderogatory implication.
The hard parts of organisms resist decomposition more effective/effectivelythan the soft parts.
Clear/clearlyfossils are only preserved under favorable circumstances.
Terrestrial animals decomposequick/quicklyafter death.
Past events are recorded cryptical/crypticallyin sedimentary rocks.