KIDS QUIZ
NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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unforeseen
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unforeseeable
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Detailed explanation-1: -They will help replenish needed seeds if they are lost from crops due to natural or man-made disasters, such as pollution. They will offer enough genetic variety to be able to develop other varieties, for example to create pest-resistant, drought-tolerant crops or to feed a growing world population.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world’s crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. The Seed Vault provides long-term storage of duplicates of seeds conserved in genebanks around the world.
Detailed explanation-3: -Millions of these tiny brown specks, from more than 930, 000 varieties of food crops, are stored in the Global Seed Vault on Spitsbergen, part of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. It is essentially a huge safety deposit box, holding the world’s largest collection of agricultural biodiversity.