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    Sustainable Development: 1. Read The Paragraphs Below and Match Them With The Threat They Refer To

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    The document summarizes information about sustainable development and threats to the Amazon forest. It discusses how the Amazon forest covers 5 million square kilometers, an area as large as Europe excluding Russia, but that 1/4 of the forest had already been cut down by 1974. If deforestation continues at the current rate, the forest could disappear within a few years. Scientists say the loss of trees is already causing climate changes in places like Peru and Bolivia. The text warns that if more of the Amazon is cut down, there could be less oxygen, higher temperatures worldwide, and rising sea levels that flood coastal cities.

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    The document summarizes information about sustainable development and threats to the Amazon forest. It discusses how the Amazon forest covers 5 million square kilometers, an area as large as Europe excluding Russia, but that 1/4 of the forest had already been cut down by 1974. If deforestation continues at the current rate, the forest could disappear within a few years. Scientists say the loss of trees is already causing climate changes in places like Peru and Bolivia. The text warns that if more of the Amazon is cut down, there could be less oxygen, higher temperatures worldwide, and rising sea levels that flood coastal cities.

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    The document summarizes information about sustainable development and threats to the Amazon forest. It discusses how the Amazon forest covers 5 million square kilometers, an area as large as Europe excluding Russia, but that 1/4 of the forest had already been cut down by 1974. If deforestation continues at the current rate, the forest could disappear within a few years. Scientists say the loss of trees is already causing climate changes in places like Peru and Bolivia. The text warns that if more of the Amazon is cut down, there could be less oxygen, higher temperatures worldwide, and rising sea levels that flood coastal cities.

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    Sustainable Development: 1. Read The Paragraphs Below and Match Them With The Threat They Refer To

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    The document summarizes information about sustainable development and threats to the Amazon forest. It discusses how the Amazon forest covers 5 million square kilometers, an area as large as Europe excluding Russia, but that 1/4 of the forest had already been cut down by 1974. If deforestation continues at the current rate, the forest could disappear within a few years. Scientists say the loss of trees is already causing climate changes in places like Peru and Bolivia. The text warns that if more of the Amazon is cut down, there could be less oxygen, higher temperatures worldwide, and rising sea levels that flood coastal cities.

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    LICEO REPÚBLICA DE ISRAEL 2° Grade

    TEACHER: Gabriela Bravo V.


    SUBJECT: English Language
    NAME: DATE:
    TOTAL SCORE: 41 POINTS MARK:

    SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

    1. Read the paragraphs below and match them with the threat they refer to:

    The Amazon forest covers five million square kilometers,


    an area as big as the whole Europe excluding Russia. It contains
    one third of the world’s trees. However, the trees are
    disappearing. By 1974, a quarter of the forest had already been
    cut down. In the following year, 1975, four per cent of the
    remaining trees went. If the destruction of the forest continues
    at the same rate, there will be nothing left in a few years.

    Scientists say that the disappearance of trees is already


    causing changes in the climate. In Peru, there is less snow than
    before on the high peaks of the Andes mountains. In Bolivia
    there is very little rain.

    What will happen if more of the Amazon forest is cut down?


    According to climatologists if the Amazon forest disappears, there will be less oxygen and it
    will be difficult for us to breathe, the temperature will rise, the ice-caps at the North and the
    South poles will melt. Even the sea level will rise. Therefore, seaside cities will be flooded.

    Scientists do not agree about the calculations which can be done in different ways with
    different results. But all the scientists agree that if we destroy the Amazon forest, it will be an
    environmental suicide. Life on earth will become difficult, and it may become impossible.

    1-Give a title to the text (The Amazon Forest / Amazonia River ARE NOT OPTIONS) (2 points)

    Crisis in the Amazon

    2-Say whether the following statements are true or false (4 points)

    A-The Amazon forest is bigger than Europe: False

    B-It contains most of the world’s trees: True

    C-Deforestation leads to climate change: True

    D-If the Amazon forest is destroyed; the coastal towns will be under water: True
    3-Answer the following questions according to the text, GIVE COMPLETE ANSWERS!! (9 points)

    a- How big is the Amazon forest?


    The Amazon forest covers five million square kilometers, an area as big as the
    whole Europe excluding Russia

    b- Why is the Amazon forest so important?


    because it helps us to have an environmental stability

    c- What will happen if it ever disappears?


    we will have problems of lack of oxygen and climatic changes

    4-Match the words with their synonyms (4 points)

    1-whole 1-D a- weather

    2-climate. 2-A b-go up

    3-rise 3-B c-result

    4-consequence. 4-C d- complete

    5-Find in the text words that are opposite in meaning to: (4 points)

    -including: Excluding______________________ -low: High


    __________________________

    -drop: _________________________ -easy: Difficult_________________________

    6- Find these words in the text. Match them with their meanings (6 points)

    a) pollution C…. a factory which produces electricity

    b) climate A…. world’s weather patterns


    c) power station B…. energy from the sun

    d) acid rain E…. rising temperatures around the world

    e) greenhouse effect D…. rain containing chemicals which pollute the environment.

    f) radiation F…. Something that makes the earth, air or water dirty and dangerous.

    7- Read text1 and text 2 and find out the causes and the effects of each type of pollution (12
    points)

    TEXT 1 TEXT 2

    Because factories release fumes, the air people Living in noisy overcrowded towns has become
    breathe gets polluted. Other well-known dangerous because everyday exposure to noise
    effects of fumes are smog, acid rain and holes can cause headache, earaches and may lead to
    in the ozone layer. deafness.

    Text Type of pollution causes effects


    1 -Acid rain
    Respiratory Smoke release -smog
    -holes in the ozone layer

    2 -Headache
    Acoustics Noisy villages -Earache
    -Deafness

    Ignacio Godoy Quezada

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