When harmful chemicals are emitted into the atmosphere, it pollutes this gas needed for photosynthesis.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
100
This type of reaction occurs when greenhouse gases are produced during deforestation.
What is a chemical reaction?
100
This is the harmful gas emitted into the atmosphere when deforestation is occurring.
What is Greenhouse Gases?
100
The _____ of plants and animals are in danger of endangerment and extinction during deforestation.
What is biodiversity?
100
This is the capital of Brazil.
What is BrasÃlia?
200
This red-blood-cell-attacking disease carried by mosquitos has a 300 times higher chance of occurring in cleared forest areas.
What is Malaria?
200
Mining is one of the causes of deforestation. The explosives used in mining contain uranium which has this chemical property.
What is toxicity?
200
Deforestation is one of the main contributors of this environmental epidemic.
What is Global Warming?
200
This percentage of the Amazon Rainforest has been cut down within a 450 year span.
What is 20%?
200
This is the official language spoken by Brazilians.
What is Portuguese?
300
Because of the damaged and polluted plant cell caused by deforestation, this process is slowed down making it more difficult to reproduce forests.
What is cellular reproduction/mitosis?
300
If fossil fuels used to power machinery that cut down trees is accidentally mixed with another harmful substance, this compound has the potential to react like this.
What is combustion?
300
Cattle grazing is one of the main causes of deforestation and therefore produces large amounts of this harmful green house gas into the atmosphere.
What is methane?
300
These three gases are the most commonly burned fossil fuels in forests in Brazil during deforestation.
What is coal, crude oil, and natural gas?
300
This is the date of Brazilian Independence Day?
What is September 7, 1822
400
The food chain is disrupted due to the lack of diversity of plants, so animals must rely on unfamiliar sources of foods. Therefore this bodily system is in danger of disease.
What is the digestive system?
400
The high _____ in acid rain robs the soil of essential nutrients needed by trees and plants.
What are pH levels?
400
If deforestation continues, there will be ______ solar heat and _____ moisture in the atmosphere due to the lack of trees.
What is more and less?
400
A 3 degrees rise in the world's climate will destroy ____% of the Amazon Rainforest.
What is 75%?
400
This ethnic group takes up about 54% of Brazil's population.
What is Caucasian?
500
The harmful gases produced by deforestation infect these important filters in the respiratory system.
What are cilia?
500
This will occur when the soil in the Amazon is less than 5.
What is a breakdown in soil, reduced number of organisms in the soil, and/or minimized growth of plants and trees.
500
Forest fires is another way deforestation occurs and they can release about 44 million tonnes of this silent killer.
What is carbon monoxide?
500
The Amazon Rainforest is disappearing at a rate of _____ square miles per year.