What are the major effects of deforestation?
What will be an ideal response?
The major effects of deforestation include immediate destruction of forest organisms, flooding, landslides, nutrient-poor soils because of the increased loss of nutrient ions in runoff, and drier and hotter local climates.
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In Pasteur's experiment showing that living organisms arise from other living organisms, which one of the following statements most accurately describes Pasteur's hypothesis?
A. Straight-neck flasks allow for more contamination than swan-neck flasks. B. Sterilization of broth kills microbes. C. If microbes arise from non-living matter, they should appear spontaneously in sterile broth. D. Microbes should be capable of growing equally well in sterile broth contained in both straight-neck and swan-neck flasks. E. The first cells must have come from chemical reactions occurring in early Earth.
Cells that are the main water-conducting cells of a
plant are a. sclereids. b. tracheids. c. sieve tubes. d. parenchyma. e. all of these.
What reaction involving ATP releases a large amount of energy?
A.) the release of the sugar group B.) the release of the hydroxyl group C.) the release of the base D.) the release of the terminal phosphate group E.) the release of adenine
________ occurs when human developments break up natural ecosystems into smaller areas
A) Sustainable development B) Habitat fragmentation C) Species invasion D) Conservation biology E) Overexploitation