Deforestation, Soil Degradation, Drought, and Famine

1. How do droughts cause hunger?

• The plants drown with the excess rainfall

• Crops cannot grow

• Droughts do not cause hunger

2. What should you NOT do during a drought? Choose as many as are appropriate.

• Pour extra water down the drain

• Turn the water off while you brush your teeth

• Take shorter showers

• Water your flowers

3. What is drought?

• When it does not snow for a long period of time and there is not enough snow.

• When there is too much rainfall.

• When there is below-average precipitation, leading to a decrease in water supply.

4. Drought, unequal distribution of food, increased population, and flooding are causes of what?

• Typhoid Fever

• Malaria

• Famine

• Deforestation

5. What is the term for the large scale falling of trees and subsequent decrease in forest area?

• Soil Degradation

• Deforestation

• Pollution

6. How many football fields worth of trees are being chopped down every minute?

• 22

• 51

• 36

• 8

7. Agriculture, settlement, fuel needs, illegal logging, mining, and an increasing population are the causes of what?

• Famine

• Deforestation

• Drought

• Soil Degradation

8. What could happen if soil becomes degraded (infertile/unhealthy).

• Lots of food would grow

• The soil would catch on fire

• Flooding would occur

• Mudslides could occur since the soil is very loose

9. How can we prevent soil degradation?

• Plant more vegetables.

• We can’t prevent it.

• Use manufactured fertilizers to add nutrients back to the soil.

10. How does deforestation decrease the amount of rainfall in an area?

• Without the trees, rain can’t bounce off the leaves and get back to the clouds.

• Without trees, transportation won't occur: meaning not enough water evaporates back into the atmosphere.

• It doesn’t decrease the amount of rainfall.