This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Desertification > Control > Desertification And Its Control – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Desertification And Its Control Quiz 3 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How much of East Africa is prone or covered to Desertification A) 65%. B) 100%. C) 30%. D) 45%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 45%. 2. Which of the following is one of the causes of desertification? A) Clearing land for more homes. B) Cutting trees and bushes for firewood. C) Wild animals eating all of the plants. D) Larger numbers of migrating birds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cutting trees and bushes for firewood. 3. Which answer is incorrect ..... The Sahel is at risk because of ..... A) Poor farming practices. B) Low population which is decreasing. C) Changing weather patterns leading to prolonged drought. D) Over farming leading to soil erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Low population which is decreasing. 4. Most countries in the SW Asia/North Africa region have little rain fall so they use: A) Wadi water. B) Wells. C) Desalinated water. D) Spring water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Desalinated water. 5. The process by which land becomes increasingly dry to a point of being useless. A) Desertification. B) Marginal land. C) Drought. D) Pastoral nomads. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Desertification. 6. Which of the following continents has the largest desertified area? A) Africa. B) Europe. C) Asia. D) South America. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asia. 7. What good is most likely to be shipped on the Niger River? A) Timber. B) Fresh drinking water. C) Technology. D) Petroleum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Petroleum. 8. ..... leads to poor soil. A) Desertification. B) Flooding. C) Decreased population. D) Dirty water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Desertification. 9. Which of the following are the causes of desertification? A) Logging, settlement, agriculture. B) Animals grazing, poor soil, poor farming practices. C) Dams, irrigation, transportation. D) Overpopulation, poor sanitation, parasites. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Animals grazing, poor soil, poor farming practices. 10. Is an expansion of dry conditions into moist areas that are next to deserts. A) Forest. B) Tundra. C) Desertification. D) Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Desertification. 11. Dirty water makes it hard for Africans to go to work or school because of illness, money must be spent on medicine, and there is no time to work or start a business because of time spent fetching water. All of this leads to ..... in Africa. A) Poverty. B) Entrepreneurship. C) Happiness. D) Healthiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poverty. 12. Which is a result of desertification for the people living in the Sahel region? A) Increased tourism. B) More jobs in manufacturing. C) Increased starvation and poverty. D) Decreased support from the United Nations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increased starvation and poverty. 13. What effect does poor soil and deforestation have on land in Africa? A) Increases food productions. B) Provides more jobs. C) Has ended HIV/AIDS. D) Increases poverty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increases poverty. 14. All of these pollute water in Africa except A) Toxic mining chemicals. B) Raw sewage. C) Pesticides. D) Water purification plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water purification plants. 15. Ways of fighting Desertification, are ..... A) Rotating crops. B) Improving irrigation systems. C) Educating farmers. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 16. Which of the following can cause desertification? A) Using wood for fuel, rather than coal. B) Wildfires. C) Building houses on dry land. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 17. What region in Africa is most vulnerable to desertification? A) Sahara. B) Tropical Rainforest. C) Sahel. D) Savanna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sahel. 18. An EFFECT of desertification is: A) Food shortages. B) Strong economies. C) Growth of new plant life. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Food shortages. 19. Are deforestation and desertification related? A) Desertification and deforestation are the same thing. B) Deforestation contributes to desertification. C) They are not related to one another. D) Desertification leads to deforestation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deforestation contributes to desertification. 20. What are some solutions to combat desertification? A) Encourage the use of firewood rather than coal. B) Increase the growth of cash crops that require a lot of water. C) Create walls of vegetation that break the wind storms from eroding the land. D) Grazing animals in the same fields year after year. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Create walls of vegetation that break the wind storms from eroding the land. 21. Overgrazing means ..... A) Allowing herds to drink water in the grasslands. B) Traveling from place to place. C) Excessive grazing which causes damage to grasslands. D) Leaving herds unattended. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Excessive grazing which causes damage to grasslands. 22. What does the word Nomadic herding mean? A) Giving homes to foster pets. B) Staying in one place. C) Movement from place to place. D) Creating dwellings in the desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Movement from place to place. 23. Which areas are at risk of desertificiation? A) Polar regions. B) Tropical rainforests. C) UK. D) Areas at the edge of deserts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Areas at the edge of deserts. 24. ..... crops is defined as growing different crops in a field in different years. A) Burying. B) Shoveling. C) Rotating. D) Consuming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rotating. 25. Which region in Africa is most vulnerable to deforestation? A) Sahel. B) Tropical rainforest. C) Sahara. D) Savanna. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tropical rainforest. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesDesertification QuizzesAgriculture QuizzesDesertification And Its Control Quiz 1Desertification And Its Control Quiz 2 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books