(a) What are environmental hazards?
(b) List three examples of environmental hazards.
(c) Explain five ways of preventing desert encroachment.
Explanation
(a)An environmental hazard is a substance, state or event which has the potential to threaten the surrounding natural environment / or adversely affect people’s health, including pollution and natural disasters such as storms and earthquakes
(b)*Cosmic rays *Drought *Earthquake.
(c)*afforestation
*irrigation
*rotational/controlled grazing
*creation of shelter belts
*legislation against indiscriminate bush burning.