Environmental Issues Review

Which of these is one cause of deforestation?

• Urbanization
• Buying a chirstmas tree during the holidays
• Overbreeding birds in the wild
• Cutting down the tree in your backyard

What is urbanization?

• Process of making an aread more city-like
• Process of making an area more country-like
• Tearing down a large shopping mall
• Moving to an urban area

What is deforestation?

• Clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale
• Eating too much vegetables
• Going to a forest and pulling weeds
• Clearing the five trees in my backyard

Deforestation has an affect on the water cycle

• true
• false

what is the leading cause of deforestation?

• Diseases 
• Housing market
• Agriculture and Farming
• Paper mill

What are the effects of deforestation ?

• loss of habitat
• increased green house gasses 
• soil erosion and flooding
• all of the above

Why does cutting down trees increase global warming?

• trees soak up carbon dioxide
• trees provide shade which counteracts global warming
• trees absorbs the sun's energy without radiating back into the atmosphere
• trees drain greenhouse gases like methane from soil

The Pampas is a grassland that can be found on the continent of __________.

• North America
• Australia
• Asia
• South America

Which continent is Brazil part of?

• North America

• Europe

• South America

• Asia

Which letter on the map represents Brazil?

• A
• B
• C
• D