i) INDUSTRIALIZATION
-Has led to disposal of industrial wastes into the lake contaminating /polluting the
water and interfering with aquatic life
- Agro-chemicals/industrial effluents washed into the lake has promoted weed loons
- causing the lake to be colonized by weeds/water hyacinth
DEFORESTATION
- Has exposed soils to agents of erosion; the eroded soils have been carried and deposited
in the lake siltation. This had diminished the depth of the lake.
- Deforestation in water catchment areas has interfered with the water cycle causing low
rainfall and less water from feeder rivers. this has led to drying of the lakes
ii) - observation
- Taking photographs
- Taking measurements
- Collecting samples
- Interviewing/asking questions
- Reading from secondary sources
iii) - In order to write the report/summarize the data
- So as to a group/process/ analyze the data collected
- so that the various groups can report/discuss the findings from the field
- So as t display any collected samples
- So as to assess the importance of he information collected I the field
- To test samples collected from the field
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