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प्रश्न
Distinguish between the following pair:
Deforestation and Afforestation.
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उत्तर
Deforestation: Deforestation (cutting down of forests) has been one of the most serious outcomes of the rising population to get land for cultivation and housing and to obtain timber and wood.
Afforestation: Forests are one of our renewable resources. By careful management and afforestation (planting more trees), we can maintain and even improve the existing forests.
संबंधित प्रश्न
Define the following:
Deforestation
Present human population growth is following arithmetic progression.
Name any two renewable resources for the mankind.
Name any two resources which come under pressure due to the rising population.
Coal and iron are inexhaustible resources.
Petroleum is a resource of the same category as that of ______.
What was directly responsible for the rapid rise of world population in the twentieth century?
Which of the following is not a non-conventional source of energy?
Match the terms given in column A with those in column B.
| Column A | Column B | ||
| (a) | Forest | (i) | Arithmetic progression |
| (b) | Food | (ii) | Geometric progression |
| (c) | Population | (iii) | Deforestation |
| (d) | Coal | (iv) | Afforestation |
| (e) | Flash floods | (v) | Renewable source of energy |
| (vi) | Non-renewable source of energy |
Given below is a set of paired terms. The first pair indicates the relationship between the two terms. Rewrite and complete the second pair on a similar basis.
Cutting down of forests : Deforestation :: Planting more trees : ______.
