IELTS Atlas

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Follow the order of the recording. Predict answer types from context.

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  • Answers come in order
  • Watch word limits carefully

Part 1 · Questions 3135

Sentence completion

  1. Researchers now treat sound as a measurable 31______ of biodiversity.
  2. Biophony is the sounds produced by living 32______ — birds, frogs, cicadas.
  3. Geophony includes natural sounds like wind, rain, and moving 33.
  4. Anthrophony is dominated by road traffic and increasingly by 34.
  5. Ecologists deploy small, weatherproofed recording 35______ across a site.

Part 2 · Questions 3640

Sentence completion

  1. Software converts sound into visual 36______ — spectrograms.
  2. The daily dawn 37______ peaks around sunrise and indicates habitat quality.
  3. Loss of high-frequency 38______ sound indicates declining populations.
  4. Traffic noise reduces songbird breeding 39______ in urban parks.
  5. Long-term archives track climate-driven shifts in species 40.

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