Class 8 English Notes: - Unit 3: Environment - The Lesson: Deforestation

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Exercise Question and Answers:

Unit 3: " Environment "

The Lesson “Deforestation"

(National Book Foundation - New Book/New Syllabus Based on Single National Curriculum Pakistan 2023-2024 and Onwards)

(Class 8 English Notes for 8th Centralized Exam 2023 and onward, FDE, Islamabad )

Exercise Question and Answers:

Answer the following questions.

a. What are the most important causes of deforestation?

Ans:

The most important causes of deforestation are:

Industrial Agriculture
Timber Logging
Mining
Expansion and Infrastructure
Climate Change

b. How does deforestation affect the environment?

Ans:

Deforestation affects the environment in the following ways:

It is estimated that in 100 years' time, there won’t be any rainforests on earth anymore.
The loss of Biodiversity.
One and a half acres of forest are cut down every second.
The rate of deforestation equals a loss of 20 football fields every minute.
Up to 28,000 species are expected to become extinct by the next quarter of the century due to deforestation.
Deforestation affects the water cycle.

c. What is the role of individuals to control deforestation?

Ans:

As an individual we can do the following steps to control deforestation:

Consuming Less and More Consciously.
Leaving Fossil Fuels and Palm Oil Behind.
Lead by Example and Spread Awareness.

d. How can deforestation affect biodiversity?

Ans:

Deforestation can directly lead to biodiversity loss when animal species that live in the trees no longer have their habitat, cannot relocate, and therefore become extinct. Deforestation can lead certain tree species to permanently disappear, which affects the biodiversity of plant species in an environment.

e. What role can the government or other administrative authorities play to control deforestation?

Ans:

The government is focusing on large-scale “afforestation”. Since June 2015, the “Billion tree tsunami” project has been striving to save Pakistan’s forests in two ways: to prevent future deforestation and to repair past harm by planting saplings. 250 million saplings have been planted in KP in the last year, greatly exceeding the average annual count of 20 million.

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Class 8 English Notes (Main page)

Summary of poems:
Unit-2: The poem “A Time to Talk”
Unit-2: The Lesson “Everyday it Happens”
Unit-2: The poem “Do it anyway”

Central Ideas of poems:
Unit-2: The poem “A Time to Talk”
Unit-2: The Lesson “Everyday it Happens”
Unit-2: The poem “Do it anyway”
Unit-5: The poem “A Far Away Village”

Paraphrasing of poems:
Unit-2: The poem “A Time to Talk”
Unit-2: The Lesson “Everyday it Happens”
Unit-2: The poem “Do it anyway”
Unit-5: The poem “A Far Away Village”

Source: English Book (National Book Foundation, Pakistan)

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