Amazon Importance Challenge

What is undoing the fragile balance of the ecological process of the Amazon?

• intense rainfall flooding the region

• dropping of temperatures changing the climate of the region

• burning of forests causing the deforestation of the region worsening global warming

• the Amazon rainforest is improving causing new species to be identified

What is a major driver of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by humans?

• Using dams to convert water flow into an energy provider.

• Conservation of planting trees

• Helping local communities to assist with substance farming.

• Burning fossil fuels, coal, oil, and natural gas.

What have humans used to identify new cures from the rainforest?

• insects, plants, and other organisms

• deforestation, pollution, and burning

• genetics

• continue to struggle with finding ant new cures

What does indigenous mean?

• common

• new

• native

• colorful

What percentage has the Amazon Rainforest has been studied by scientists? What can cause the loss of discovering these medicinal gains?

• half 1%, shrinking of the rainforest

• 4%, increasing farmland

• half 1%, expansion of the rainforest

• 10%, shrinking of the rainforest

The Amazon rainforest has long been recognized as a _______________ of ecological services...

• hinderance

• distraction

• repository

• build-up

_________ have hidden attributes that play a key role in ______________ pollutant levels.

• Infrastructure, lowering

• fossil fuels, decreasing

• trees, reducing

• people, improving

Plants provide oxygen, which is _____________ into the air. Carbon which _________ the plant to grow.

• taken, denies

• released, allows

• depleted, prevents

• lost, allows

Evapotranspiration is the combination of ______________________ and _____________________.

• evaporation, transporation

• evaporation, plant transpiration

• elevation, plant transpiration

• vapor, transplant

What are the variety of uses of the Amazon Rainforest?

• agriculture, clothing, and cures for diseases.

• mining, plastics, and clothing

• agriculture, plastics, cures for diseases

• mining, clothing, and agriculture