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Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follows: (10)
1. For many people who live in cities, parks are an important part of the landscape. The provide
A place for people to relax and play sports, as well as a refuge from the often harsh
environment of a city what people often overlook is that parks also provide considerable
environmental benefits,
2 One benefit of parks is that plants absorb carbon dioxide - a key pollutant - and emit oxygen,
which humans need to breathe. According to one study, an acre of trees can absorb the
sume amount of carbon dioxide that a typical car emits in 11,000 miles of driving. Parks
also make cities cooler. Scientists have long noted what is called the Urban Heat Island
Effect: building materials such as metal, concrete, and asphalt, absorb much more of the
Sun's heat and release it much more quickly than organic surfaces like and grass. Because
city landscapes contain so much of these building materials, cities are usually warmer than
surrounding rural areas, Parks and other greem spaces help to militage the Urban Heat
Island Effect
3 Unfortunately, many cities cannot easily create more parks because most of land is already
being used for buildings, roads, parking lots and other essential parts of the urban
environment. However, cities could benefit from many of the positive effects of parks by
encouraging citizens to create another type of green space, rooftop gardens. While most
people would not think of starting a garden on their roof, human beings have been planting
gardens on rooftops for thousands of years. Some rooftop gardens are very complex and
require complicated engineering, but others are simple container gardens that anyone can
create with little investment and a few hours of work.
4. Rooftop gardens provide many of the same benefits as other urban park and garden spaces,
but without taking up the much needed land. Like parks, rooftop gardens help to replace
carbon dioxide in the air with nourishing oxygen. They also help to lesser the Urban Heat
Island Effect, which can save people money,
Answer the following questions : (any ten)
i) Why the parks are an important part of landscape in cities?
ii) What are the benefits people get from the parks?
iii) What do people overlook about the parks?
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iv) How much carbon dioxide absorbs by an acre of trees?
v) What do the scientists note about parks?
vi) What for parks are reduce in many cities?
vii) What miligate the Urban Heat Island Effect?
viii) Rooftop gardens also lesser the Urban
Effect
x) Park provide city people with:
a) a place to relax
b) play sports
c) take refuge from the changing weather patterns. d) all of the above
xi) How old is our rooftop gardens ?
Answers
Answer:
1) The parks are an important part of landscape in cities bcoz they provide a place for people to relax and play sports, as well as a refuge from the harsh environment of a city.
2) The benefits people get from the parks:
• Plants in park absorb carbon dioxide, a key pollutant and emit oxygen.
• Parks and help to militage the Urban Heat Island Effect.
• Parks also make cities cooler.
3) People often overlook that parks provide considerable environmental benefits.
4) An acre of trees can absorb the amount of carbon dioxide that a typical car emits in 11,000 miles of driving.
5) Scientists have noted that the building materials such as metal, concrete, and asphalt, absorb much more of the Sun's heat and release it much more quickly than organic surfaces like and grass.
6) Parks are replaced by rooftop gardens as they provide the same benefits as the parks in much lesser space.
7) Parks miligate the Urban Heat Island Effect.
8) Yes, rooftop gardens also lesser the Urban
Effect.
9) Parks provide city with d) all of the above
10) I don't know this answer. Sorry.