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The mission report questions are as followed: 1. How is the climate of an area affected by deforestation and the resulting agriculture or urban land use? 2. How is the global ecosystem affected by deforestation and the resulting agriculture or urban land use? 3. What can you do to reduce the impact of deforestation?

The climate of an area affected by deforestation will change in different ways like less rainfall, wind, and ocean patterns. The people used a slash and burn method that makes room for homes and fields will contribute to deforestation. The deforestation will cause the decaying wood to release carbon-dioxide into the atmosphere. With fewer trees to take the carbon-dioxide out of the air, there will be more carbon-dioxide in the air which adds green house gases. Without the trees that were cut down, the temperature would go down in the day in that area. Without the trees, there is less routes and vines to hold dirt together so the sand will drain into the rivers and ponds which cause dirty rain. Without the trees there the ground won’t hold as much water and that will make the land drier and have less rain fall.

The global ecosystem is affected by deforestation in a few ways. The global ecosystem is affected by wind and ocean patterns weather and other areas away from the deforestation and rain fall. The drier climate will cause fires which make clouds but the clouds do not drop as much rain in other areas. With deforestation animals lose there homes and with no homes they get crowded in another area. With deforestation, rain forests and other areas don’t get as much rain as they should. The amazon’s deforestation will affect the rain fall from Mexico to Texas. Deforestation in central Africa affects rain fall and upper and lower U.S. Mid–West. This happens because less moisture is taken up in the air so it rains less in those places that the winds takes the clouds.

There are many things we can do to reduce the impact of deforestation. I think that we can cut down on the objects that involve using wood and recycle. We can buy recycled paper so they don’t have to cut down anymore trees. The most major thing we can do to help deforestation is to plant trees back in the areas that were knocked down. This will help trees to grow back faster and that will help draw the Co2 out of the air again (carbon-dioxide). By products that doesn’t put as much green house gases in the air and by conserving energy. Recycling is another big thing that helps. If you recycle paper you save more trees from getting cut down. Recycling products that get recycled take less energy than making new products. So we can defiantly reduce deforestation.

All three questions have one common main idea and that is what happens and what we contribute, good and bad towards deforestation. Each paragraph tells what we are doing to are paragraph that we don’t see. Deforestation is affecting the region where it is happening and on a global scale.

Are resources are……….

-Wicker, Crystal. “Climate.” __Weather wiz kids. http://www.weatherwizkids.com/climate.htm.__

- Stock, Jocelyn and Rochen, Andy. “The Choisce: Doomsday or Abor Day.”__ http://www.umich.edu/%7Egs265society/deforestation.htm__

- Collins, Jocelyn. “Deforestation.” Envirofacts__. http://www.bcb.uwc.ac.za/envfacts/facts/deforestation.htm__

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