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Chapter 36 Questions

The document contains a series of questions related to Chapter 36, focusing on food supply, habitat destruction, and pollution. It addresses concepts such as monoculture, intensive livestock production, habitat destruction, the effects of acid rain, and deforestation. The questions require detailed explanations and examples, highlighting the negative impacts on ecosystems and potential solutions.

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Chapter 36 Questions

The document contains a series of questions related to Chapter 36, focusing on food supply, habitat destruction, and pollution. It addresses concepts such as monoculture, intensive livestock production, habitat destruction, the effects of acid rain, and deforestation. The questions require detailed explanations and examples, highlighting the negative impacts on ecosystems and potential solutions.

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Test your knowledge – Questions: Chapter 36

Food supply, Habitat Destruction and Pollution

1. What is meant by the term monoculture? [1]


2. What is meant by the intensive livestock production? Give three examples of
intensive livestock production used in agriculture. [4]
3. Describe the negative impacts to an ecosystem of large-scale monocultures of
crop plants. [4]
4. Describe the negative impacts to an ecosystem of intensive
livestock production. [5]
5. A habitat is an ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular
species of animal, plant or other type of organism. The term typically refers to the
zone in which the organism lives and where it can find food, shelter, protection and
mates for reproduction.
What is meant by the term habitat destruction? Describe four reasons that lead to
habitat destruction. [5]
6. In order to fight the spread of malaria, insecticides have been used in areas
where the Anopheles sp. mosquito breeds. Suggest reasons why some people
might be concerned about using insecticides. [5]
7. Name the two gases that are mainly responsible for the formation of acid rain,
and name the sources that release these gases. [4]
8. Outline four negative effects of acid rain on plants. [4]
9. Give five possible solutions to reduce acid rain. [5]
10. The following questions deal with deforestation.
(a) Define the term deforestation. [2]
(b) Outline six factors that lead to deforestation. [6]
(c) Describe the effects or impacts of deforestation. [7]
(d) Explain ways in which deforestation can be reduced. [4]

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