Chapter 12 Review

Read this sentence from the reading in paragraph 2.

Plants and animals can become extinct when clear cutting occurs.

What does extinct mean?

• No longer existing

• Growing more and more

Read this sentence from the last paragraph in the reading.

One way is to harvest and sell sustainable products such as Brazil nuts.

What does sustainable mean?

• using resources while harming the environment

• using resources without harming the environment

The main reason of this reading is to

• explain some problems and solutions to rainforest development.

• describe the lungs of the earth

Rainforests are called the "lungs of the Earth" because

• forests have lungs

• trees breath like humans

• the forest adds oxygen to the atmosphere

According the information in the reading, an idea to help preserve (save) rainforest habitat is

• clear cut more trees

• harvesting sustainable products.

• let loggers cut down more trees

As more people come to the rainforest, more land is cleared.

• True

• False