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What is deforestation?

• Clearing earth's forests on a massive scale

• Eating too much vegetables

• Clearing the five trees in my backyard

• Going to a forest and pulling weeds

What is a leading cause of deforestation?

• Diseases

• Housing market

• Agriculture and Farming

• Paper mill

Why is the increase of Greenhouse gasses a big issue?

• It causes climate change and increase in the global temperature

• It can lead to a major increase in Greenhouses

• It leads to more factories

• It causes a major decrease in people

What does SPICESS stand for?

• Space, People, Change, Environment, Size & Scale

• Space, Place, interconnection, change, environment, scale & sustainability

• Spicess, people, interesting, environment

• Space, Place, Change, everything, challenges, scale, size

Salt is a natural part of the Australian environment

• TRUE

• FALSE

Soil salinity is caused by a rising

• Saltiness in the soil

• Water table under ground

• Accumulation of nutrients in the soil

• Level of fertilisers

When harmful substances build up in the air to unhealthy levels it is known as ...

• Unfortunate

• Air pollution

• Chemicalisation

• Water pollution

Which of the following is NOT a benefit of large dams?

• Provide water and electricity

• Mitigate flooding

• Create beautiful lakes

• Flood farmland/ natural landscape

Which of the following causes soil erosion

• Soil erosion is when soil is gradually worn away by natural phenomena such as rain, waves, glaciers and the wind.

• Large machinery

• Farming too intensively

• All of the above