GCSE Geography – Desertification
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Question 1 of 18
1. Question
Which of the following is NOT an alternative name for land on the desert fringes?
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2. Question
What is unusual about the baobab tree?
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3. Question
Regarding desertification and climate change, alongside deserts, what are desert fringes known as.
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Question 4 of 18
4. Question
What is the term used when land gradually turns into desert?
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Question 5 of 18
5. Question
Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons for desertification?
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Question 6 of 18
6. Question
How much of the topsoil of Earth has been lost in the last 150 years?
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Question 7 of 18
7. Question
In Australia, how much of the 5 million square kilometres of desert and semi-desert, have been affected by desertification?
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Question 8 of 18
8. Question
What is the result, when vegetation is destroyed and the soil is exposed to the wind and the rain?
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Question 9 of 18
9. Question
What does overgrazing mean?
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Question 10 of 18
10. Question
What is over-cultivation?
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Question 11 of 18
11. Question
What happens to the soil if it is over-cultivated?
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12. Question
Over-cultivation means that trees are often stripped of their branches for use as firewood. What then happens to the tree?
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Question 13 of 18
13. Question
Badia in Eastern Jordan has a major water shortage. How many millimetres of rain fall, on average, per year?
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Which of the following is NOT one of the animals herded by nomadic Bedouin, in Badia?
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15. Question
Following the 1991 Gulf War, an influx of which animal, from Iraq, caused overgrazing and desertification in Badia?
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Question 16 of 18
16. Question
In which of the following countries, is desertification NOT a significant problem?
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Question 17 of 18
17. Question
How much of the World’s population either suffer, or are threatened by desertification?
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Question 18 of 18
18. Question
What do scientists think will happen to global temperatures this century?
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