Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon rain forest is located mostly in

• Mexico

• Brazil

• Suriname

Deforestation is

• Photographing trees

• Planting trees

• Removing or clearing trees

Sustainable development is

• Using resources without using them all up for future generations

• building new homes

• clearing trees to make farms

The Carbon - Oxygen cycle is

• global warming

• the canopy and the forest floor

• When trees take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen

Rubber tappers

• cut down trees to make latex out of sap

• tap the bark for the sap that makes latex

• squeeze the leaves to get the sap

The main problem in the Amazon is

• Differences among groups to about how to use the land

• Government giving away land to farm

• Natives using all of the land

Biodiversity is

• slash and burn clearing

• clear cutting

• the variety of plants and animals