The document discusses the causes and consequences of deforestation. Some key causes mentioned are cutting down trees, construction, making furniture, and mining. Major consequences include increased global warming due to greenhouse gases, less rainfall, higher pollution levels, decreased groundwater, soil erosion, and more natural disasters like floods and droughts.

1. DEFORESTATION
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2. CAUSES FOR DEFORESTATION :
Cutting of trees.
Construction of houses and buildings.
Making furnitures.
Using wood as fuels.
For preparing railway tracks.[In older days].
Forest fires.
Irregular methods of cropping or cultivation.
Mining.
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3. CONSEQUENCES OF DEFORESTATION
Increase in temperature[global warming]due to
green house effect.
Less rainfall.
Higher pollution.
Ground level water will decrease.
Imbalance in nature.
Loss of fertility in soil.
Soil erosion.
Natural calamities[Floods , Droughts]
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4. GREEN HOUSE EFFECT
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5. GLOBAL WARMING
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6. LESS RAINFALL
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7. HIGHER POLLUTION
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8. DESERTIFICATION
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9. FLOODS DROUGHTS
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10. ACID RAIN
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11. THANK YOU
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