4.7.3.3 land use

• how do humans reduce the amount of land available for other animals and plants?

  by building, quarrying, farming and dumping waste
• what are bogs?

  they are acidic and waterlogged land
• what happens to plants in peat bogs?

  they are not decayed completely due to anaerobic conditions
• what do these partly rotted plants form?

  peat
• what, therefore, is stored in peat?

  carbon
• what happens when we burn peat (for fuel) or decay fully (when been drained out peat bogs to create space)?

  it releases carbon dioxide into the atmostphere
• what does the destruction of peat bogs that produce garden compost reduce?

  the area of this habitat and thus the variety of different plant, and microorganism species that live there - biodiversity