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Environmental Issues of Africa, Water Pollution - Coggle Diagram

- - - - -Identify the reasons for deforestation.
      - -Explain both the short-term and long-term consequences of deforestation, highlighting the relationship between poor soil and deforestation.
      - -Explain why the soil of deforested land is unusable for agriculture, and how this unusable soil contributes to the cyclical nature of Africa’s deforestation.
  - - - The term deforestation refers to the loss of forest from cutting down too many trees.
      - -Once trees are cut down, nothing is able to hold the soil.
      - -Soil erodes and key nutrients wash away.
- - - - he term desertification refers to the process by which a desert spreads, and the soil loses its ability to hold water.
      - -The term slash and burn refers to a form of agriculture in which an area of forest is cleared by cutting and burning and is then planted, before being left behind.
      - -Desertification causes the Sahel climate to push farther south towards the rainforest.
      - -1/3 of Africa is threatened by desertification.
- - - - The importance of water in Africa.
      - -The effects water pollution has on the economic development of the region, particularly in northern Africa.
      - -Landlocked countries and countries with little access to water suffer in their trading abilities.
  - - - Water is polluted.
      - -Water is unequally distributed throughout the nations of Africa.
      - -Many nations lack safe drinking water.
      - -Natural environmental pollution is the major cause of water pollution.