Deforestation in Africa

Which of these is one cause of deforestation?

• Making room for roads and heavy equipment

• Buying a chirstmas tree during the holidays

• Overbreeding birds in the wild

• Cutting down the tree in your backyard

What is deforestation?

• Clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale
• Eating too much vegetables
• Going to a forest and pulling weeds
• Clearing the five trees in my backyard

Deforestation is a result of

• rain forest timber being exported all over the world

• evil entrepreneurs who want to destroy the earth

• money hungry banks that give out bad loans

• the need to build schools for children

Deforestation causes an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide

• true

• false

What is the leading cause of deforestation?

• Diseases

• Housing market

• Commercial logging

• Paper mill

What does deforestation effect?

• reduction of oxygen

• fewer medicines

• extinction of plants and animals

• All of the above

According to the United Nations, which country has lost 55% of its forests due to commercial logging?

• Niger

• Nigeria

• Kenya

• Democratic Republic of Congo

New Guinea and Cameroon have lost _________ due to deforestation.

• farming equipment

• the license to do commercial logging

• rain forests

• population

This is the destruction of trees and other vegetation

• deforestation

• desertification

• industry

• population distribution

Which is NOT a cause of deforestation in Africa?

• clearing land for farms
• logging
• urban growth
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