Question

Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow. 

“My inspiration comes from my childhood experiences and observations of nature in rural Kenya. As I was growing up, I witnessed forests being cleared arid replaced by commercial plantations, which destroyed local biodiversity and the capacity of the forests to conserve water.” 

a) What inspired Wangari Maathai to become an environmentalist? 

b) What was the impact when forests were replaced by commercial farming? 

c) What does ‘biodiversity’ mean?

Answer 1

a) Her childhood experiences and observations of nature in rural Kenya. 

b) It destroyed biodiversity and the capacity of the forests to conserve water. 

c) Biodiversity means the variety of living things in an environment.