The Amazon and climate change

Erika has studied the same batch of trees for ten years now, measuring exactly how they're growing and how they affect the climate. This matters to the whole world because of:

• the period a scientist has been studying the trees.

• sheer size of this forest.

• the new government in Brazil.

• the scientist's interests.

What happens to the Earth's climate if trees are cut down and burned?

• The government of Brazil will resign.

• The climate change will not be an issue anymore.

• The carbon stored inside the trees will be released back to the atmosphere and speed global warming.

• Dr Erika Berenguer will for sure lost her job.

What country the majority of the Amazon Rainforest is contained within?

(a)  

Which photograph conveys the sense of these words the best?

All that's left where forest once stood. A stark reminder of what's vanishing, and of consequences for the rest of the world.

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The Amazon holds as much carbon as America produces by burning fossil fuels for nearly

• a century.

• a decade.

• 50 years.

• 30 years.

The hardest way to investigate why the trees of the Amazon are so important is:

• climbing right up into them.

• cutting them.

• asking for samples of the leaves.

• jumping to cut the leaves.

What the action of clearing a wide area of trees is called?

• demineralisation

• heating up

• demilitarisation

• deforestation

Choose the proper translations of 'deforestation of the selva'.

• deforestacja selwy

• wylesianie selwy

• deforestacja puszczy amazońskiej

• wycinka lasu

What is the nickname of the Amazon Rainforest?

• the heart of the world

• the brain of the world

• the lungs of the world

• the kidneys of the world

The Amazon Rainforest is the only rainforest in the world.

• True

• False