Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below in your own words:

For many people who live in cities, parks are an important part of the landscape. They provide a place for people to relax and play sports, as well as a refuge from the often harsh environment of a city. What people often overlook is that parks also provide considerable environmental benefits.

One benefit of parks is the plants absorb carbon dioxide-a key pollutant–and emit oxygen which humans need to one study, an acre of trees can absorb the same amount of carbon dioxide that a typical car emits in 11,000 miles of driving. Parks also make cities cooler. Scientists have long noted what it called the Urban Heat Island Effect; building materials such as metal, concrete and asphalt, absorb much more of the sun’s heat and release it much more quickly than organic surfaces like trees and grass. Because city landscapes contain so much of these building materials, cities are usually warmer than the surrounding rural areas. Parks and other green spaces help to mitigate the Urban Head Island Effect.

Questions:

(i) What benefits do parks provide city dwellers?

 (ii) Explain one scientific benefit of parks.

(iii) What is the Heat Island Effect? Find the word in the passage which means the same

(iv) as ‘to take in’.

(i) Parks provide to the people, who are living in cities (city dwellers), a place to relax and play sports. They also give shelter to them from the harsh environment of the city. (ii) One scientific benefit of parks is that plants absorb carbon dioxide, which is a key pollutantunhealthy and harmful to us. By doing this they (plants) emit (send out) oxygen which we nced to breathe in: (iii) Building materials such as metal, concrete and asphalt, absorb much more the sun’s heat and release it much more quickly than organic surfaces like trees and grass. It is called “Heat Island Effect”. (iv) “Absorb”.

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