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Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Some ______ do not need oxygen to survive.

a)

Plants

b)

Bacteria

c)

Insects

d)

Mammals

2.

Every year over 27 millions tons of dust from Africa travel to and fall from the sky in the _____ basin.

a)

American

b)

Desert

c)

Amazon

d)

African

3.

Dust traveling from across the globe acts as an important _____ for plants in the rainforest.

a)

Fertilizer

b)

Species

c)

Messenger

d)

Photosynthesis

4.

Plants turn carbon dioxide into _____.

a)

Air

b)

Nitrogen

c)

Oxygen

d)

Carbon monoxide

5.

It’s not completely accurate to call the rainforest the “lungs of the planet” because...

a)

It doesn’t make a lot of oxygen

b)

Its organisms consume all the oxygen it makes

c)

It doesn’t make any oxygen

d)

All it’s oxygen is released to outer space

6.

Sediments washed out to the ocean from the Amazon rainforest provide nutrients for microorganisms called _____.

a)

Diatoms

b)

Fish

c)

Bacteria

d)

Shrimp

7.

________ provide most of the oxygen that we breathe.

a)

Plants

b)

Rainforest

c)

Diatoms

d)

Humans

8.

The atmosphere is ____ % oxygen.

a)

3.3

b)

20.95

c)

75.0

d)

98.62

9.

The amount of oxygen in the atmosphere has _____ over the last billions of years.

a)

remained the same

b)

changed

10.

The atmosphere is ____ .

a)

very deep

b)

very thin

c)

Not measurable