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WorksheetsPalm Oil Quiz
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 47mins
How many acres of rainforest is destroyed each day?
20 acres
200,000 acres (an area that is 30 times bigger than Liverpool)
200 acres
A football pitch size
Ture or Fasle? There are about 20 million hectares (an area larger than the UK) of abandoned land available to grow palm oil trees. However, firms prefer clearing forests first to get double profit. One is by selling timber trees and another is for the oil.
True
False
How many people in South East Asia die prematurely each year because of toxic air pollution caused by fires used to clear land for palm oil manufacturing?
12
176
110,000
23,000
What percentage orangutan habitat has been destroyed in the past 20 years?
3%
24%
80%
50%
How many animals are endangered in Indonesia now due to deforestation?
1 in 10
1 in 100
1 in 3
1 in 50
How many Orangutans die each year due to deforestation?
6000
100
12
198
At the beginning of the 20th century, about 250,000 tonnes of palm oil was exported annually from South-East Asia. Now, these figures have risen to...
500,000 tonnes
1 million tonnes
3 million tonnes
nearly 70 million tonnes
At the same rate of deforestation, new studies suggest that Indonesian and Malaysian rainforests will be destroyed by the year...
2119
2098
2022
2200
What percentage of Orangutans have died out in the past 20 years?
12%
14%
56%
Almost 80%
In 1948 experts believed the Sumatran Tiger population was around 10,000 now they believe it to be...
7,000
8,000
3,000
less than 300
What products contain Palm Oil?
Very Few
Pizza, shampoo, bread, ice cream, noodles, pasta, fuel, chocolate, toothpaste, makeup, coke, crisps, soap and more.
Palm bread
Palm chocolate
What can we do?
Buy palm oil free products?
Nothing
