Biology-B7-Deforestation and Land Use

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Human activity is doing what to biodiversity?
reducing it
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This is due to the need for?
land
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What three things are the land used for?
building e.g. factories
farming
dumping waste e.g. landfill
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This means there is less land for(2)?
animals and plants
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This reduces their?
habitat
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Therefore reducing?
biodiversity
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Bogs are areas of land that are _____ and _____?
acidic and waterlogged
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Plants that live in bogs dont fully?
decay
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This is because there is not enough?
oxygen
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The partially rotted plants then build up to form?
peat
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So the carbon in the plants is stored in the ______ instead of being ______ into the _____?
stored in the peat instead of being released into the atmosphere
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Due to the conditions there, decay occurs?
very slowly
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However peat bogs are being?
destroyed
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Some countries _____ it to release ______ e.g.______?
burn it to release energy e.g. electricity
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This reduces the variety of (3)?
plants
animals and microorganisms that live here
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Peat bogs are also often ______ to be used as _____?
drained to be used as farmland
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When it is drained it comes into contact with more?
air
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Some microorganisms will then begin to _________?
respire
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This will release_____ contributing to what?
CO2 contributing to global warming
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CO2 is also released when peat is _____ as a ____?
burned as a fuel
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Peat is often extracted for ______?
compost
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This releases large volumes of?
carbon dioxide
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Some gardeners have?
stopped using compost with peat
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But alternatives are?
very expensive
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Which could result in what increasing?
prices
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This is due to the need for?

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land

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What three things are the land used for?

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This means there is less land for(2)?

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This reduces their?

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