Deforestation, clearance orclearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is

thereafter converted to a non-forest use.[1] Examples of deforestation include conversion of forestland to

farms, ranches, or urban use.
Forests are cleared all around the world for a number of reasons, including:
o
Harvesting of timber to produce wood and paper products
o
Clearing land for farms, cash-crop plantations, and cattle ranching
o
Clearing land for urban development, including homes and roads.
Seventy percent of the worlds plants and animals live in forests and are losing their habitats to
deforestation. Loss of habitat can lead to species extinction. This is not only a biodiversity tragedy but also
has negative consequences for medicinal research and local populations who rely on the animals and
plants in the forests for hunting and medicine.
Because this is the way where we get our livelihood.
It is very hard to stop deforestation because our world relies on timber to make infrastructures, paper and
other commonly used equipment. We have no other alternatives so we solely rely on the cutting down of
trees for these resources. The worlds economic state is in such dis-repair that most people do not own
laptops or other forms of computers to do their writing on. Even if this was possible, the majority of the
population would want to print their work which would still use up paper. These by-products wouldnt be so
bad if humans replace the trees that they cut down. Even for people who do replant trees, this makes a
minor effect as trees take a long time to grow to full height.
Its is also hard to stop the building of infrastructures on land where trees have been. This is because as our
world's population grows there is less and less room to build infrastructures, so we turn to land where
trees grow. Humans then chop down the trees to accommodate housing in the land we have so we have
no option but to build on land where trees had been. It is also hard to plant and harvest croon the land we
already have for the same reason. We really have no more room. The land that trees grow on is also mad
of rich soil ideal for agriculture. There is also becoming less and less rich soil that is not already in use.
Soil erosion is a naturally occurring process that affects all landforms. In agriculture, soil erosion refers to
the wearing away of a field's topsoil by the natural physical forces of water (Figure 1) and wind (Figure
2) or through forces associated with farming activities such as tillage.
Causes of Soil Erosion
Land use: Humans play a major role in soil erosion through their use and abuse of natural
resources, for example deforestation, grazing, arable land use, faulty farming systems, high
crop intensity, housing construction, mining etc.
Climate: The two most important climatic factors having a direct effect on erosion are
precipitation and wind velocity. Other climatic factors have an indirect effect on soil erosion,
such as water balance, evapotranspiration, temperature and relative humidity. Indirect factors
affect the erosivity of rainfall by altering the soil moisture regime and the proportion of rainfall
that may become surface runoff. For erosion control it is necessary to investigate physical
characteristics of rainfall, including the amount, distribution, intensity, energy load, seasonality
and variability of rainfall and the formation and course of surface runoff.
Soil: The susceptibility of a soil to erosion is influenced by its physical, hydrological, chemical
and mineralogical properties as well as its soil profile characteristics. Important soil physical
and hydrological properties that affect the resistance of a soil to erosion include texture,
structure, water retention and transmission properties.
Hydrology: Infiltration, surface detention, overland flow velocity, and subsurface water flow
are important soil erosion components of the hydrological cycle. The different types of flow and
their velocities may be turbulent or laminar, steady or unsteady, uniform or non-uniform and
influence the extent of erosion
Landforms: Slope gradient, slope length and shape of slope are the important variables of
landform that affect erosion processes for all types of soil erosion, e.g., splash, sheet, rill, and
gully erosion.
Soil Erosion effects humans by adding additional toxic organic chemicals and heavy metals to
the soil as well as eroding land so that there is less land to farm on.
Soil erosion is second only to population growth as the biggest environmental problem the world faces.

The starting point for longitude is the

Prime Meridian. The Prime Meridian is
at longitude 0.
The starting point for latitude is the equator.
The equator is at latitude
0 (0 degree). At the North Pole, the latitude is
90N (90 degrees north).
At the South Pole, the latitude is 90S (90
degrees south).
The lines of latitude are also known as parallels
of
latitude. That is because the lines of latitude
are parallel to the equator and to
each other.

Longitude ()
Lines of longitude appear vertical with
varying curvature in this projection, but
are actually halves of great ellipses, with
identical radii at a given latitude.
Latitude ()
Lines of latitude appear horizontal with
varying curvature in this projection; but
are actually circular with different radii. All
locations with a given latitude are
collectively referred to as acircle of
latitude.
The equator divides the planet into
a Northern Hemisphere and a Southern
Hemisphere, and has a latitude of 0.
TROPIC OF CAPRICORN
: the parallel of latitude that is approximately
2312 degrees south of the equator and that is
the southernmost latitude reached by the
overhead sun
TROPIC OF CANCER

: the parallel of latitude that is approximately

2312 degrees north of the equator and that is
the northernmost latitude reached by the
overhead sun

The Arctic Circle is one of the five

major circles of latitude that mark maps of the
Earth.
Arctic Circle
The parallel of latitude approximately 6634 no
rth, the southern boundary of the North Frigid Z
one, markingthe approximate limit north of whi
ch the sun remains above the horizon all day o
n the summer solstice.
an imaginary line drawn parallel to the equator,
at 2328prime; S ofthe North Pole: between the
North Frigid Zone and the NorthTemperate Zon
e.
The Antarctic Circle is one of the five major
circles (or parallels) of latitude that mark maps
of the Earth.
Antarctic Circle
The parallel of latitude approximately 6634 so
uth, the northern boundary of the South Frigid
Zone,marking the approximate limit south of w
hich the sun remains above the horizon all day
on the summersolstice.
an imaginary line drawn parallel to the equator,
at 23 28prime; N ofthe South Pole: between th
e South Frigid Zone and the SouthTemperate Zo
ne.
Solving linear inequalities is almost exactly like solving
linear equations.

Solve x

+ 3 < 0.

If they'd given me "x + 3 = 0", I'd have known how

to solve: I would have subtracted 3 from both sides.
I can do the same thing here:

Then the solution is:

x < 3

To solve a multi-step inequality you do as you

did when solving multi-step equations. Take one
thing at the time preferably beginning by
isolating the variable from the constants. When
solving multi-step inequalities it is important to
not forget to reverse the inequality sign when
multiplying or dividing with negative numbers.

Example:
Solve the inequality