Thursday: Response to Text

The Amazon Rainforest

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1. List all of the countries that the Amazon Rainforest covers.

→Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, Bolivia, Suriname and French Guiana.

2. How big is the Amazon Rainforest?

a) 2 million square feet b) 4 million square feet

c) 5 million square feet d) No exact measurement

3. How many of the world’s bird population can be found in the Amazon Rainforest?

a) 30% b) 10%

c) 20% d) 40%

4. Which of the following species CANNOT be found in the Amazon Rainforest?

a) Humans b) Dogs

c) Cats d) Reptiles

5. True or false: All of the plants and trees in the Amazon Rainforest have been discovered.

a) True b) False

6. What type of technique was used to create farmland and grazing pastures?

a) Clash-and-curve b) Slash-and-curve

c) Clash-and-burn d) Slash-and-burn

7. Why might the indigenous people who live in the Amazon not like interacting with humans that don’t live their lifestyle?

→ because of their health and language barriers that make it difficult to communicate.

8. Why is it important that the Amazon Rainforest has protection laws?

→ We need oxygen to breathe so the forest is very important. People began settling close to the Amazon Rainforest to create grazing pastures and farmland so that why the Amazon Rainforest has protection law