Consequences of Deforestation

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What are the uses of the forest?

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How does deforestation lead to frequent floods and droughts?

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(a) How does deforestation cause soil erosion?
(b) Explain how deforestation leads to frequent flooding of rivers.

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How do forests influence the quality of air, soil and water resources?

Q. Question 4 (c)
What will happen if:
The top layer of soil is exposed.

Q. Question 3 (f)
Discuss the effects of deforestation on the next generation.

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How to grazing of animals effect Forests?

Q. Overgrazing leads to desertification . Why?

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Which of the following is not a consequence of deforestation ?
(a) increase in soil erosion
(b) increase in earth's temperature
(c) decrease in rainfall
(d) decrease in floods

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Uncontrolled deforestation leads to-

A. Destruction of habitats
B. Soil erosion
C. Flooding

1. A only
2. A and B
3. B and C
4. A, B and C

Q. Q.Extinction of tiger can destabilise the entire forest ecosystem and result in a loss of biodiversity
Justify this statement

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(a) Explain how, deforestation leads to reduced rainfall.
(b) How does deforestation lead to global warming?

Q. Name the practice followed for large scale rearing of farm animals.

Q. ______ is restocking of the destroyed forests by planting new trees.

1. Deforestation
2. Aforestation
3. Reforestation
4. None of the above

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State whether the following statement is true or false:

Activities such as deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels increase the concentration of oxygen in the air.

1. True
2. False

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(a) What are the various purposes for which the forest trees are cut?
(b) What is the effect of deforestation on wild animals?

Q. Question 3 (c)
Discuss the effects of deforestation on Villages (Rural Areas).

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X is a human activity which will cause an increase in temperature of the earth's atmosphere leading to global warming. It can cause soil erosion making the soil infertile and lead to desertification. It can cause a decrease in rainfall but increase the flooding of rivers. It can also affect the water cycle and lead to the extinction of many wild species. What is X?

Q. Question 8
Explain how deforestation leads to reduced rainfall.

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Explain how forests influence the air, soil, and water resources.

Q. Question 26
How does deforestation lead to frequent floods and droughts?

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How are nutrients lost from an ecosystem?

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The above picture shows a forest which is burnt for agriculture. Many animals of this part of the forest were moved and many were killed. This depicts what amongst the following?

1. Clearing of land
2. Coal preparation process
3. Habitat destruction
4. Hunting

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Doforestation increases the level of one of the following in the atmosphere. This one is:

(a) ozone
(b) carbon dioxide
(c) oxygen
(d) water vapour

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What is desertificationand how it is caused?

Q. Where are Royal Bengal Tigers found?

1. Mangrove forests
2. None of these
3. Thorn forests
4. Montane forests

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The above picture shows jungle burnt for agriculture.This is an example of which of the following?

1. Cleaning of land
2. Coal preparation process
3. Habitat destruction
4. Hunting

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What are the consequences of deforestation ?

Q. Deforestation leads to an increased amount of $\text{C}{O}_2$ in the earth's atmosphere.

1. False
2. True

Q. is the process of breaking up rocks by wind, water, salts, acids, plants, and climate.

1. Erosion
2. Weathering
3. Separation