Conflict in the Amazon - Live Lesson

Conflict in the Amazon

Live lesson

Multiple Choice

Native Amazonians hunt, fish, and grow crops on small plots of land in the region. When the land can no longer produce crops, they move into another area. Over time, new forest covers the old land naturally and without causing damage to the area.

Why do the Native Amazonians move to a new area when they can no longer produce crops?

• They are tired of looking at the same land year after year

• The new land can produce better crops because it still has rich nutrients.

Multiple Choice

In order to develop the Amazon Basin, the government of Brazil had to -

• bring in farmers, ranchers, and loggers

• build roads through the rainforest

• force native people from their homes

• fight people for the land

Open Ended

Is the way that Native Amazonians use the land in the rainforest POSITIVE or NEGATIVE? Answer using the sentence stem and explain your reasoning.

The way that Native Amazonians use the land in the rainforest is ___ because___.

Open Ended

Is the way that the Brazilian government opened the Amazon Basin for development POSITIVE or NEGATIVE? Answer using the sentence stem and explain your reasoning.

The way that the way that the Brazilian government opened the Amazon Basin for development is ___ because___.

Multiple Choice

Why do loggers come to the Amazon Rainforest?

• To become the best log rollers on the planet

• To make money

• To destroy the rainforest

• To help Brazil's economy

Multiple Select

Why do loggers tend to cut down other types of trees and vegetation in the area when they come to cut down hardwood trees? (Choose 3)

• It is easier to cut down everything in one area.

• They can make a profit from almost everything they cut down.

• Hardwood trees are scattered throughout the forest and getting them out without cutting down other trees is expensive and difficult

• They are trying to get rid of all the animals in the area.

• They want to create jobs in the forest industry.

Open Ended

Is the way that the loggers cut down trees and vegetation in the rainforest POSITIVE or NEGATIVE? Answer using the sentence stem and explain your reasoning.

The way that the way that the loggers cut down trees and vegetation in the rainforest is ___ because___.

Political and Physical Features Maps of South America

Multiple Choice

Why does Brazil have a limited area for farmland?

• Brazil is a very small country,

• Most of Brazil's land is covered by the Amazon Rainforest

• Most of Brazil's land is covered by desert

• Most of Brazil's land is covered by mountains

Multiple Select

The Brazilian government brought poor families to the rainforest to give them farmland.

What might be some results of this practice? (Choose 3)

• More roads must be built for people to access the land.

• More rainforest will be destroyed as people clear the land for use.

• Poor people will become rich because they will have free land.

• People who use Amazonian farming methods will have to move to new areas when the land can no longer produce crops

• Wealthy Brazilians with land will be upset because they did not receive free farmland in the Amazon Rainforest.

Multiple Choice

The Amazon Rainforest creates 20% of the earth's -

• carbon dioxide

• oxygen

• smoke

• trees

Multiple Choice

The Amazon Rainforest has been threatened by -

• farming

• forest fires

• mining

• logging

• all of these

Multiple Choice

The Amazon Rainforest is able to store carbon that

• people need

• pollutes our atmosphere

Multiple Choice

If the Amazon Rainforest continues to disappear -

• we will lose much of our planet's biodiversity

• we will lose resources for important medicines

• we will experience a faster rate of climate change

• All of these

Multiple Choice

Can the Amazon Rainforest be saved from the destruction it is facing?

• No

• Yes

Multiple Choice

How can you help save the Amazon Rainforest from the destruction it is facing?

• Reduce the amount of paper you use

• Don't eat as much beef

• Choose renewable energy products whenever you can

• All of these

Open Ended

Respond-Ask-Connect-Extend [RACE]

Use ONE sentence stem to complete ONE phrase below.

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This connects to a prior lesson because

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