Nature and Wildlife Vocabulary

Nature and wildlife vocabulary covers the lexical territory of the natural world — and the foundation for understanding documentaries, nature writing, and environmental discussion. Mammal, reptile, amphibian, insect, bird, fish, predator, prey, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore for biological categories. Forest, rainforest, jungle, desert, savannah, tundra, wetland, coral reef, mountain range, river system for habitats. Lion, tiger, elephant, dolphin, whale, eagle, snake, butterfly, bee for high-frequency animals. The worksheet builds the productive and receptive vocabulary B1 learners need for nature-and-wildlife topics.

This worksheet builds B1 fluency with nature-and-wildlife vocabulary in description and documentary contexts.

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What’s inside:

• Vocabulary box with 40+ nature and wildlife terms grouped by category
• Picture-matching tasks for animal and habitat recognition
• Gap-fill in nature-documentary script extracts
• Multiple-choice items targeting habitat-animal collocations
• Personalised production: describe an animal or natural environment that fascinates you

Common challenges: Category confusions: mammal vs reptile (covers/scales matters); insect vs bug (insect = scientific, bug = casual cover term including spiders); fish (singular and plural both fish; fishes refers to multiple species). False friends: Spanish animal salvaje = wild animal; German Wild = wildlife, not wild (adjective). Verb collocations: animals live in, plants grow in, species inhabit / are native to.

For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B1, in intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Nature vocabulary is core to Cambridge B1 Preliminary (PET) and B2 First (FCE) Listening and Reading — particularly documentary and nature-text comprehension. Part of the Travel & Geography collection — the natural next step is Weather Vocabulary and Expressions, which returns to the more accessible weather-and-climate base.