By Andrea Thompson, and Ker Than Posted: 19 April 2007 08:32 am ET	Identify the future simple verb forms (both in active and passive voice) by typing them in each box provided.
Our planet's prospects for environmental stability are bleaker than ever with the approach of this year’s Earth Day, April 22. Global warming is widely accepted as a reality by scientists and even by previously doubtful government and industrial leaders. And according to a recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there is a 90 percent likelihood that humans are contributing to the change.
2020 ¹Flash floods will very likely increase across all parts of Europe. (IPCC) Less rainfall could reduce agriculture yields by up to 50 percent in some parts of the world. (IPCC) ²World population will reach 7.6 billion people. (U.S. Census Bureau)	¹ ²
2030 ³Diarrhea-related diseases will likely increase by up to 5 percent in low-income parts of the world. (IPCC) ⁴Up to 18 percent of the world’s coral reefs will likely be lost as a result of climate change and other environmental stresses. In Asian coastal waters, the coral loss could reach 30 percent. (IPCC) ⁵World population will reach 8.3 billion people. (U.S. Census Bureau) ⁶Warming temperatures will cause temperate glaciers on equatorial mountains in Africa to disappear. (Richard Taylor, University College London, Geophysical Research Letters) ⁷In developing countries, the urban population will be more than double to about 4 billion people, packing more people onto a given city's land area. The urban populations of developed countries may also increase by as much as 20 percent. (World Bank: The Dynamics of Global Urban Expansion)	³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷
2040 ⁸The Arctic Sea could be ice-free in the summer, and winter ice depth may shrink drastically. Other scientists say the region will still have summer ice up to 2060 and 2105. (Marika Holland, NCAR, Geophysical Research Letters)	⁸
2200 ⁹An Earth day will be 0.12 milliseconds shorter, as rising temperatures cause oceans to expand away from the equator and toward the poles, one model predicts. ^10-11One reason water will be shifted toward the poles is most of the expansion will take place in the North Atlantic Ocean, near the North Pole. The poles are closer to the Earth’s axis of rotation, so having more mass there should speed up the planet’s rotation. (Felix Landerer, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Geophysical Research Letters)	⁹ ¹⁰ ¹¹

Fill in the grid using the information above. If there is none, write ‘not mentioned in the text’

Year	Population	Increases in/with …	Decreases in/with…	Losses in …
2020		flash floods
2030
2040
2200

(Source: Thompson, Andrea and Than, Ker. “Timeline: the Frightening Future of Earth” Retrieved from
http://www.livescience.com/environment/070419_earth_timeline.html on August 14, 2010)