Can the Amazon Be Saved?

Deforestation refers to

• planting trees in the forest.
• removing flowers from trees.
• moving a forest from one continent to another.
• cutting down trees.

Plants and animals in the rain forest are becoming extinct because

• they are being killed by hunters
• the weather in the rain forest keeps changing.
• loggers and farmers are destroying the rain forest.
• tourists are vacationing in the rain forest.

Scientist Jim Bowyer says the real cause of deforestation is

• population growth and poverty
• malls and gas stations
• factories and mills
• plants and animals

Destroying trees in the rain forest will cause

• larger rivers.
• Earth's climate to get hotter.
• animals to have more homes.
• cleaner air.

Why did the author write this passage?

• To entertain the reader with a fiction story.
• To inform the readers of the dangers of deforestation.
• To inform the reader about apples.
• To entertain the reader with a non-fiction story.