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Amazon Importance Challenge

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

intense rainfall flooding the region

b)

dropping of temperatures changing the climate of the region

c)

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

d)

the Amazon rainforest is improving causing new species to be identified

2.

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

a)

Using dams to convert water flow into an energy provider.

b)

Conservation of planting trees

c)

Helping local communities to assist with substance farming.

d)

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

3.

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

a)

insects, plants, and other organisms

b)

deforestation, pollution, and burning

c)

genetics

d)

continue to struggle with finding ant new cures

4.

What does indigenous mean?

a)

common

b)

new

c)

native

d)

colorful

5.

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

a)

half 1%, shrinking of the rainforest

b)

4%, increasing farmland

c)

half 1%, expansion of the rainforest

d)

10%, shrinking of the rainforest

6.

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

a)

hinderance

b)

distraction

c)

repository

d)

build-up

7.

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

a)

Infrastructure, lowering

b)

fossil fuels, decreasing

c)

trees, reducing

d)

people, improving

8.

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

a)

taken, denies

b)

released, allows

c)

depleted, prevents

d)

lost, allows

9.

Evapotranspiration is the combination of ______________________ and _____________________.

a)

evaporation, transporation

b)

evaporation, plant transpiration

c)

elevation, plant transpiration

d)

vapor, transplant

10.

What are the variety of uses of the Amazon Rainforest?

a)

agriculture, clothing, and cures for diseases.

b)

mining, plastics, and clothing

c)

agriculture, plastics, cures for diseases

d)

mining, clothing, and agriculture