Environment

Question 1

What did Kingsbury say?

Answer 1

Argues deforestation may be the world’s most significant environmental problem, along with desertification.

Question 2

What did Ellwood say?

Answer 2

Notes that the global extinction crisis is accelerating with dramatic declines in wildlife.
Habitat loss is the major cause of the decline in number of species.
In the last 500 years, mankind has forced 816 species to extinction.

Question 3

Dehli is…

Answer 3

The worst polluted city

Question 4

Brazil is…

Answer 4

responsible for half of the deforestation in the Amazon forest (total loss is 17.7 million hectares)

Question 5

Global warming?

Answer 5

Refers to the rise in global temperatures now acknowledged to be caused mainly by human activity, likely to lead to severe consequences such as rising sea levels and increased desertification.

Question 6

Deforestation?

Answer 6

Refers to the fall in the amount of land covered by forest as a result of human activity.

Question 7

Desertification?

Answer 7

Is the spread of deserts, as land on the edge of deserts loses its vegetation and topsoil.

Question 8

Biodiversity?

Answer 8

Refers to the number and variety of species in ecosystems, threatened by human activity.