Choose A, B, C, or D that best completes each sentence.

The heavy rain ____ floods in the houses by the river.

It is (10)______ that sailors in the Pacific can smell the dead sea-life during El Nino.

Sea animals, (9)___ fish and birds, also die in large numbers.

The 1982 El Nino (8)____ in 1,500 deaths, but it can be a lot worse than that.

It can cause catastrophic (7)____.   

It got its name (Spanish for “boy child”) because it usually takes (6)___  near Christmas time.

It was first (5) ___ by fishermen coming from Spanish ports in the Pacific in the 17^th century.

It has the (3) ____ to influence global weather patterns as it brings drought to some continents and (4)_____ rain to others.