Question

What is deforestation? Describe the effects of deforestation.

Answer 1

Instructions:

1. Start with an introduction.
2. Explain the effects.

Solution:
Deforestation is the cutting down of trees permanently by people to clear forests for various uses, mainly commercial and personal.

Effects

• Indiscriminate cutting of trees can bring many problems like floods and droughts, and loss of soil fertility.
• Since trees help to purify the air, without trees there will be more air pollution.
• It can lead to the extinction of species, global warming, the spread of deserts, depletion of water resources, melting of ice caps and glaciers, rise in sea levels, and depletion of the ozone layer.