The flow chart illustrates the consequence of deforestation. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features.

The given flow chart depicts information about deforestation and its effect on the environment.

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, it is readily apparent, that clear-cutting of forests leads to four main steps of deterioration including flooding, erosion of the soil, decrease of the biodiversity and others. First of all, during deforestation, there is the compression of the soil,

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heavy equipment. Soil becomes hard and “baked”,

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rainwater runs off and ends with flooding.

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, only a few roots keep the topsoil on and the topsoil erodes. Erosion

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has a connection with the degradation of the vegetation. There is the hazard involved outcome in the third consequence of cutting the forests. Increasing risk of burning both deliberate and accidental.

Aferwards

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Afterwards

is the destruction of waste wood from logging and micro-organisms feeding on waste lost which in turn activates the degradation of the vegetation and moving in the pioneer species which ends with a lack of biodiversity.

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, deforestation has negative effects on returning moisture to the air by plants and the lesser degree of precipitation which follows with

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droughts

. The drought has an influence on the moving of the pioneer species and the degradation of the vegetation.