Somya likes to buy books and copies. To finish a copy she wastes a lot of space and leaves most of the pages blank. When she finds that her bookshelf is full of old copies and books she just throws them in the dustbin. Once her cousin Abhishek visited her home. On seeing such wastage of papers he said to her that this
practice of hers is actually the cause of deforestation and she must stop this immediately.
(a) How wasting of paper is the cause of deforestation?
(b) How can we save papers?
(c) What value of Somya is shown here?
(d)Write consequences of deforestation?
(e) Define Afforestation.
Answers
Answer:
a)papers are made of trees
(a) Deforestation of forest land, which the local villages used for millions of years as a source of energy. As raw material for paper is obtained from pulp of these trees and cutting more and more trees for paper industry leads to deforestation.
(b) Some ways to save paper are:-
Doubled sided printing tosave paper.
No overprinting.
Always proof-read and preview.
Store alldocumentselectronically.
Re-using ScrapPaper.
Unsubscribe to Junk Mail.
Communicate via Emails.
Always Recycle.
(c) Values of soumya are:
Somya is passionate of buying books and copies without their requirement, extravagant, eco-unfriendly and immature.
(d) Deforestation disturbs the balance in nature. If cutting of trees continues, rainfall and the fertility of the soil will decrease. Apart from this there will be increased chances of natural calamities such as floods and droughts.
(e) Afforestation is the act or process of establishing a forest especially on land not previously forested.