Test Latin America

What hour are you in?

• 3rd hour
• 5th hour
• 6th hour

What is biodiversity?

• a. It refers to the variety of living plants and animals in an area.
• b. It is the process by which carbon and oxygen cycle through all living things.
• c. If refers to the variety of broadleaf evergreens found in an area.
• d. It is the decrease of plants available in a farming communities.

What is carbon-oxygen cycle?

• a. It refers to the variety of living plants and animals in an area.
• b. It is the process by which carbon and oxygen cycle through all living things.
• c. If refers to the variety of broadleaf evergreens found in an area that take in oxygen and releases cardon.
• d. It is the decrease of plants available in a farming communities.

What is deforestation?

• a. It refers to the variety of living plants and animals in an area.
• b. The removal of broadleaf plants from a given area.
• c. If refers to the variety of broadleaf evergreens found in an area that take in oxygen and releases cardon.
• d. The removal of trees from an area.

What is sustainable development?

• a. It is the use of resources to meet the needs to humans while not over using it.
• b. The removal of tree from and area with no intent to plant new trees.
• c. It is the use of resources to meet or exceed the need of humans to the detriment of society.
• d. The removal of trees from an area.

What is a tropical rainforest?

• a. Are forests that located far north and are characterized by long winters and short summers.
• b. Are found in the mid-latitudes and are characterized by the four seasons.
• c. Are forests that contain broadleaf evergreen trees that are found in wet an hot seasons near the equator.
• d. Are forest that experience rain throughout the year and have a short dry season.

What is negatively being impacted in Brazil and what can YOU do to help it?

• The Amazon Rainforest is being deforested. I can help it by buying "good wood" that has been sustainably cutdown.
• The Amazon River is being polluted with oil. I can help it by only buying oil from the U.S.
• The Amazon Basin is being destroyed. I can help it by using satellites to monitor it's destruction.
• None of the above.

What do the Native Amazonians want the Brazilian government to do to help them preserve the rainforest they live in?

• The Amazonians want the Brazilian government to clear-cut large swaths of land to allow them to farm the land more effectively.
• The Amazonians want the Brazilian government to grant them ownership over the land they live on so that they can continue their traditional way of life.
• The Amazonians want the Brazilian government to create preserves to continue to allow them to get rubber from the rubber trees before they are all cut down.
• All of the above.

Which groups from the Amazon region are living a sustainable way of life? Select ALL that apply

• Native Amazonians
• Rubber tappers
• Loggers
• Settlers
• Ranchers

Which groups from the Amazon region are not using the rainforest in a sustainable way? Select ALL that apply

• Native Amazonians
• Rubber tappers
• Loggers
• Settlers
• Ranchers