CHAPTER 12 EXAM QUESTIONS

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CHAPTER 12 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: What new skills do native Amazonians have to learn to survive?

Answer:

How to speak Portuguese How to work with Brazil's government and legal system How to become legal owners of their homelands

Question 2: How do rubber tappers use their resources?

Answer:

These people remove sap from rubber trees by making cuts in the bark, which does not harm the trees.

Question 3: How do environmental groups use their resources?

Answer:

Some study plants, hoping to find cures for diseases. Some study wildlife, and others work with native peoples.

Question 4: What do loggers want?

Answer:

They want to continue clear-cutting in the rainforest, the most economical way to harvest trees.

Question 5: How did the arrival of so many newcomers hurt native Amazonians?

Answer:

Many native people have been driven from their homelands to make room for farms and ranches.Some have died from diseases brought by newcomers.Others have been killed or injured in land use conflicts.Question 6: Which of groups are most responsible for deforestation of the rainforest?

Answer:

The cleared areas become grasslands.

Question 7: How do Native Amazonians defend their position?

Answer:

These people have lived in these forests for 12,000 years, and their use of the land and its resources is sustainable.

Question 8: How do cattle ranchers defend their position?

Answer:

Some argue that we don't belong in the rainforest. But we make good use of the land. Our cattle help feed people in Brazil. We also export more than $3 billion of beef per year to countries like the U.S. That helps the Brazilian economy and all the people of Brazil, not just certain groups. Brazil can use the money earned from beef sales to help pay its debts and take care of its citizens.

Question 9: Tropical Rainforest

Answer:

A type of region found in wet and hot climates near the equator filled with broadleaf evergreen.

Question 10: When did the rubber tappers come to the rainforest?

Answer:

These people first came to the Amazon in the 1870's to work on rubber tree plantations.

Question 11: How do loggers defend their position?

Answer:

These companies provide jobs for thousands in Brazil. The trees they harvest provide wood for furniture factories and paper mills. Brazil exported more than $5 billion of wood in 2005. This helps its economy and all the people of Brazil, not just a few.

Question 12: What do settlers want?

Answer:

They use the rainforest land to farm so they can feed their families. Farming here is difficult, but the best farmland in their country is already owned by others.

Question 13: What do Native Amazonians want?

Answer:

They want the government to make them legal owners of their homelands so they can live where they belong, on their own land.

Question 14: When did cattle ranchers come to the rainforest?

Answer:

These people started coming to the Amazon basin in the 1960s.

Question 15: What do environmental groups want?

Answer:

We want to protect the rainforest's biodiversity by slowing deforestation and development.

Question 16: When did settlers come to the rainforest?

Answer:

In the 1960's, the Brazilian government began encouraging poor people to move to the Amazon rainforest.Question 17: Explain why flowering plants are drawn larger than birds on the diagram.

Answer:

There is a larger number of flowering plant species than birds.

Question 18: How do settlers defend their position?

Answer:

The government gave them the land and encouraged them to move here. There is no land for them in other parts of the country, so them must use this land to survive.

Question 19: When did loggers come to the rainforest?

Answer:

These people began moving into the Amazon basin the 1960's.

Question 20: When did environmental groups come to the rainforest?

Answer:

These people started coming to the rainforest in the 1970s.

Question 21: What do rubber tappers want?

Answer:

They want to continue to make a living by tapping rubber. To do this, the practice of clearing all trees from the rainforest must stop. They want the government to set up protected areas where they can rubber tap.

Question 22: Sustainable Development

Answer:

Using materials without hurting any of the environment.Question 23: Which of groups are most responsible for deforestation of the rainforest?

Answer:

Logging companies and ranches.

Question 24: The Amazon rainforest can be found on what continent?

Answer:

South America.

Question 25: How do cattle ranchers use their resources?

Answer:

They clear land, or use land already cleared by loggers and farmers, for grazing their cattle. Cattle eat the grass in an area down to the dirt and are then moved to a new area.

Question 26: How do rubber tappers defend their position?

Answer:

They have lived in the rainforest for generations, and they use its resources, particularly rubber trees, in a sustainable way.