Causes of Deforestation Y8

'Trees are cut down for timber to make furniture or build homes'

• Logging

• Mining

• Fuel wood

• Hydroelectric power

'Cutting down trees to use the wood as a source of energy for cooking'

• Logging

• Mining

• Fuel wood

• Hydroelectric power

'Forests are cleared to extract minerals such as iron ore or copper'

• Logging

• Mining

• Fuel wood

• Hydroelectric power

'Dams are built resulting in large areas of forest being flooded'

• Logging

• Mining

• Subsistence farming

• Hydroelectric power

When people grow crops and raise livestock for their own use. They do not sell any of their produce for profit

• Subsistence farming

• Commercial farming

When people grow crops and raise livestock to sell to companies and retailers for profit.

• Subsistence farming

• Commercial farming

'Trees are cleared to make space for cattle ranching, palm oil or soya plantations'

• Commercial farming

• Commerce farming

• Subsistence farming

• Substitute farming

'Communities clearing areas of forest to grow crops for their own use'

• Commercial farming

• Commerce farming

• Subsistence farming

• Substitute farming

The Trans-Amazonia highway is an example of

• Settlement building

• Road building

• Dam building

• Farm building

'Clearing areas of forest in order to build new places to live'

• Settlement building

• Road building

• Dam building

• Farm building