GEOGRAPHY GRADE 11 UNIT THREE – SMART ETHIO E-Learning

Welcome to your GEOGRAPHY GRADE 11 UNIT THREE

UNIT THREE

1.

Which of the following is not correct about land resources?

Renewable resources easily replenish themselves under proper use

Imprints of past and present activities of humans form parts of the attributes of the land

Non-renewable resources diminish in size and quality with excessive use

Land resources like soil are human dirt that has no significant function in the ecosystem

2.

Referring to Figure 3.1 (Unit Three of your textbook), where do you observe a large proportion of damaged pasture and croplands?

Europe and Australia

South America

North America

3.

Among the following, which one causes an immediate depletion of forest resources?

Tree planting on degraded hill-slopes

Wrong government policy

Population growth

Cutting trees for clearing farmlands

4.

Which of the following land management practices helps to replace lost nutrients from agricultural soils?

Construction of wind barriers (shelterbelts)

Construction of drainage ditches

Addition of Irrigation water

Addition of animal manure

5.

Identify the correct statement:

Forests are among the common-pool land resources facing intensive human pressure

Resource conflict cannot arise from the need for secession

River-based institutions are all malfunctioning

Land resources never include air and water

6.

From the following identify the wrong match

Population pressure, policy, conventional tillage,

Policy, tree cutting for timber, rugged terrain

Collection of fuel-wood, forest clearing for farming purposes, forest burning

Conventional tillage, erosive rivers, human culture

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