UNIT – 6 (BIO-DIVERSITY) Reading – A (Environment)

 UNIT – 6 (BIO-DIVERSITY)

Reading – A (Environment)

 1. What are the basic needs of the people of rural areas?

   - Clean drinking water, food, energy (which is mostly firewood), building material, and fodder for the animals are the basic needs of the people of rural areas.

 

2. What happens when we deforest?

   - When we deforest, we cause a shortage of water. Deforestation results in changes of rainfall patterns. Therefore, people are not able to get food and water.

 

3. What are the responsibilities of the government?

   - The government should account to save the forested mountains and protect them. It should protect the interests of the people. It should have concern for their lives.

 

4. Why do we need to rehabilitate the environment?

   - Healthy environments clean our water, purify our air, maintain our soil, regulate the climate, recycle nutrients, and provide us with food. They provide raw materials and resources for medicines and other purposes.

 

5. When is good management of the natural resources possible?

   - When you have democratic space, respect for human beings and their rights, giving other people dignity, good management of the natural resources is possible.

 

6. What are the three legs according to the speaker?

   - The three legs are peace, good government, and sustainable management of resources.

 

7. How do natural resources and the environment affect human life?

   - We depend on food and water for survival, and we need energy for many different purposes, from domestic cooking through to major industrial processes. Our clothes, transport, buildings, tools, and all other items we use require many different resources for their production.

 

8. What are the natural resources available on earth?

   - Oil, coal, natural gas, metals, stone, and sand are natural resources. Other natural resources are air, sunlight, soil, and water. Animals, birds, fish, and plants are natural resources as well. Natural resources are used to make food, fuel, and raw materials for the production of goods.

 

9. List out the three transformations in the given text.

   - The three transformations quoted in the text are: a) The ability of an ordinary woman to get to understand and to be able to plant trees. b) Transformation of the landscape. c) Willingness of people to fight for their rights.

 

10. What are the three things an ordinary illiterate woman can do?

    - An ordinary illiterate woman understands, be able to plant trees, be able to cut them, and be able to give herself energy.

 

11. Explain in brief the profound transformation mentioned in the passage?

    - The profound transformation mentioned in the passage is about the landscape. Places where there was dust, there is no dust. There are trees, and all the animals come back and make the environment beautiful. Even dry springs come back because the water is going into the ground.

 

12. What does the confidence in an ordinary woman result in?

    - The confidence in an ordinary woman makes her self-reliant. She feels confident that she had done something for herself by earning her own income. That sense of pride, and sense of dignity that they are not begging is very empowering.