ChestertonCC - Geo - Whose Rainforest? - causes of deforestation

Logging is...

• cutting down trees to sell wood.

• small scale farming for yourself.

• large scale farming for profit.

• clearing trees and digging for metal ores.

Timber is used to manufacture _____.

• furniture

• paper

• electronics

• crops

Pulp from logging is used to manufacture _____.

• furniture

• paper

• electronics

• crops

Subsistence farming is...

• cutting down trees to sell wood.

• small scale farming for yourself.

• large scale farming for profit.

• clearing trees and digging for metal ores.

Commercial farming is...

• cutting down trees to sell wood.

• small scale farming for yourself.

• large scale farming for profit.

• clearing trees and digging for metal ores.

Name one crop or meat sold by commercial farms.

Open cast mining is cheaper than tunnel mining.

• True

• False

What does HEP stand for?

• hydro electric power

• hydro energy power

• hydro electric production

• high energy power

Hydroelectric power (HEP) is generated in _____ across rivers.

Tropical rainforest upstream of dams is submerged, becoming a _____.

• reservoir

• lake

• flood

• water store