Mention FOUR environmental factors that cause ill-health. (4x1=4) Give FOUR examples of inhumane farming methods. (4x1=4) • Explain THREE effects of harmful substances in crop production. (3x2=6) Animals are also victims of inhumane farming methods. Explain in THREE ways how they get affected. (3X2=6) Critically evaluate THREE mechanisms that are enforced to regulate inhumane farming methods. (3x2=6) • Suggest THREE strategies that could be considered to minimize the effects of inhumane farming methods (3x2=6) B. ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION • Define environmental degradation (2x1=2) Mention FOUR examples of environmental hazards. (4x1=4)​

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant