Environmental Issues

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What is the most pressing environmental issue in Brazil?

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Destruction of the Amazon Rainforest

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What are the causes of the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest?

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Logging for lumber, Cattle ranches, Mining.

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What are the causes of air pollution in Mexico City? Options: Automobile and factory emissions/Sierra Madre Mountains, Cutting down trees/water pollution, Radioactive fallout, Acid Rain Fall

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Automobile and factory emissions/Sierra Madre Mountains

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Solutions to Air Pollution in Mexico City: Hoy No Circula (Day without a car)/public transportation, Land protection laws/punishment for illegal mining, Closed of radioactive site for 100 years, Harper's purifying filter system

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Hoy No Circula (Day without a car)/public transportation

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True or False: Effects of air pollution in London and Mexico City include respiratory issues and heart problems.

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True

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How do Rainforests effect the whole world?

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produces 20% of the world's oxygen

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Canadian ________________ is being harvested faster than replacement trees can grow.

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timber

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What contributes to the acid rain in the Great Lakes and in Germany?

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emissions from automobiles and factories mix with water molecules in the clouds

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Canada and the U.S. sign an agreement in 1972 about the Great Lakes?

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Because of high phosphorus levels causing pollution to the Great Lakes

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The worst nuclear disaster in European history to release more radioactive fallout than any other event in history was the ___________________________ ______________________ _________________________.

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Chernobyl nuclear disaster