The pie cahrt below shows the main reasons why agricultural land becomes less productive. The table shows how these causes affected three regions of the world during the 1990s. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Given is a pie chart showing why agricultural
land
becomes less productive over time along with
a table which shows how these causes affected the three
regions of North America
, Europe
, and Oceania during the 1990s.
Looking at the pie chart we can decipher that there are three
main causes of worldwide land
degradation
, overgrazing from
animals Change preposition
of
such
as cows, over cultivation
Add a hyphen
over-cultivation
from
crops, and Change preposition
of
deforestation
. The most impactful cause is the
overgrazing which accounts for 35% of the degraded Correct article usage
apply
land
. Next,
is the
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deforestation
which is not far from overgrazing at 30% and lastly
is the
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apply
over
cultivation. All Change preposition
apply
three
of these add up to 93%. There is then
another small segment which is labeled
‘other’ which accounts for Change the spelling
labelled
the
7% of all other smaller causes of the Correct article usage
apply
degradation
.
Moving on to the table which is essentially a more detailed breakdown of the pie chart as it divides these groups into 3 regions, North America
, Europe
, and Oceania in the 1990s we can see that Europe
had the highest percentage of total land
degradation
at 23%. This
can be further
broken down to 9.8% from deforestation
, 7.7% from over cultivation
, and 5.5% from Add a hyphen
over-cultivation
over grazing
of animals. Looking at Oceania next which is not a single landmass but rather a large group of islands in the south pacific including New Correct your spelling
overgrazing
Zeland
and Australia the total is shown to be 13% of degraded Correct your spelling
Zealand
land
. They have the highest percentage of over grazing
compared to the other two groups at 11.3% and the rest of their Correct your spelling
overgrazing
degradation
comes from deforestation
at 1.7%. Lastly
, moving on to North America
, their total is only 5% with 0.2% of it coming from deforestation
, 3.3% from overcultivation and 1.5% from overgrazing.
Overall
, we can see that Europe
is the continent which has been
affected the most Wrong verb form
was
from
Change preposition
by
land
degradation
in the 1990s as they have the highest percentage of degraded land
at 23% as mentioned above whereas
North America
is the least
at 5%. All Correct word choice
lowest
three
of the percentages add up to be
41% meaning that there is still 59% of worldwide Unnecessary verb
apply
degradation
to be accounted for.Submitted by z.pfister on
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