The Mangrove Regeneration Project
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Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.
1. Mangrove forests protect coastal areas from by the sea
2. Mangroves had been used by farmers as
3. Mangroves were poisoned by the use of
4. Local people used the mangroves as a place to put their
5. A barrier which was made of was constructed – but it failed
6. The seeds of the mangrove were used
7. First set of seedlings: kept in small pots in a
8. Watered with water
9. At risk from the large population
10. The young plants were destroyed in a
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Question 1: Answer is flooding
Relevant Line: “Mangrove forests are found along river estuaries and coastlines, and are important because they prevent flooding by acting as a barrier between the land and sea.”
Question 2: Answer is firewood
Relevant Line: “Many of the mangrove trees were initially burnt as firewood by local farmers.”
Question 3: Answer is fertilizer
Relevant Line: “The mangrove forests were also poisoned by settlers’ farming methods because the farmers used fertilizer to increase crop yields.”
Question 4: Answer is trash
Relevant Line: “What was left of the mangrove forest area wasn’t valued by local people, and so the area started to be used as somewhere to dump trash.”
Question 5: Answer is sand
Relevant Line: “The conservationists involved decided to construct a sand barrier around the forests, but unfortunately, this proved to be ineffective.”
Question 6: Answer is gray
Relevant Line: “Several species of mangrove inhabit the forests in this area, but it is the gray mangroves that we are concerned with here.”
Question 7: Answer is hothouse
Relevant Line: “The first set of seedlings was planted in small pots and left to germinate in a hothouse.”
Question 8: Answer is rain
Relevant Line: “They had in fact, only been watered with rain water.”
Question 9: Answer is rabbit
Relevant Line: “It was necessary to protect them not from the large number of wading birds but from the large rabbit colony living in the area.”
Question 10: Answer is storm
Relevant Line: “However, this method did not prove very successful, and the vast majority of the seedlings were washed away in a storm.”