Tvorba riječi (Word Formation)

Read the text below. For each question (25-32), choose the answer (A, B, C or D) that best completes the sentence. There is an example at the beginning (0 → B).

Climate and health

Changes in the Earth's climate can affect public health, agriculture, water supplies, energy production and use, land use and development, and recreation. The nature and extent of (0) ____ effects, and whether they will be harmful or beneficial, will vary regionally and over time.

The impacts on human health are complex, often indirect, and dependent on multiple societal and environmental factors (including how people respond to these impacts). Therefore, the development of appropriate health-(25) ____ climate indicators is challenging and still emerging. It is important for such indicators to be clear, measurable, and timely to (26) ____ understand the link between climate change and health effects.

Changes in climate affect the average weather conditions to (27) ____ we are accustomed. These changes can result in multiple threats to (28) ____ health and wellbeing. Warmer average temperatures will likely lead to hotter days and more frequent and longer heat waves, which could increase the number of illnesses and deaths. Increases in the frequency or (29) ____ of extreme weather events, such as storms, could increase the risk of dangerous flooding, high winds, and other direct threats to people and property. Warmer temperatures could also reduce air quality by increasing the chemical reactions that produce smog, and, along with changes in precipitation patterns and extreme events, could enhance the spread of some diseases.

In addition, climate change (30) ____ require adjustments on larger and faster scales than in the past, presenting challenges to our welfare and the economy. The more extensively and more rapidly the climate changes, the larger the potential effects on society. The extent to which climate change will affect different regions and sectors of society will depend not only on the sensitivity of those systems (31) ____ climate change. It will also depend on their ability to (32) ____ to or cope with climate change. Populations of particular concern include the poor, the elderly, those already in poor health, the disabled, and indigenous peoples.

health-(25) ____ climate indicators