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What hour are you in?

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What is biodiversity?

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It refers to the variety of living plants and animals in an area.

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What is carbon-oxygen cycle?

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It is the process by which carbon and oxygen cycle through all living things.

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What is deforestation?

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The removal of trees from an area.

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What is sustainable development? Options: a. It is the use of resources to meet the needs to humans while not over using it., b. The removal of tree from and area with no intent to plant new trees., c. It is the use of resources to meet or exceed the need of humans to the detriment of society., d. The removal of trees from an area.

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It is the use of resources to meet the needs to humans while not over using it.

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What is a tropical rainforest?

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Are forests that contain broadleaf evergreen trees that are found in wet and hot seasons near the equator.

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What is negatively being impacted in Brazil and what can YOU do to help it?

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The Amazon Rainforest is being deforested. I can help it by buying "good wood" that has been sustainably cutdown.

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What do the Native Amazonians want the Brazilian government to do to help them preserve the rainforest they live in?

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The Amazonians want the Brazilian government to grant them ownership over the land they live on so that they can continue their traditional way of life.

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How has an increasing population (1960s to now) impacted the Amazon Rainforest?

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Since the 1960s the Brazilian logging companies have cleaned large areas of land. This has allowed poor settlers to settle the newly cleared land with the help of the Brazilian government in an effort to house the increasing population of Brazil.

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What do the environmentalist want from the rainforest, why and is it sustainable?

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The environmentalist want to use ecotourism to help fund their efforts to creat preserves where sustainable activities such as rubber tapping can continue, and the biodiversity can be protected for further study.