Green Issues

Where are there tropical rainforests?
What are they like?
Why are they often in the news?

Rebekka Walker has made several TV programmes about the destruction of the rainforests. Listen to her talk.

1. Which of these sentences are true and which are false?

a. The canopy of the forest means the tops of the trees.

b. 25% of all animal and plant species live in the rainforest.

c. There are more 4,000 types of tree

d. We get medicines from plants in the rainforest.

e. A treatment fo AIDS has been discovered in the rainforest.

f. We have lost over half the world's rainforests since 1945.

g. The forest breathes in oxygen, like humans.

2. Rebecca mentions three of the following points. Which ones?

a. beauty for visitors
b. danger of climate change
c. full of dangerous animals
d. good place to get wood
e. home of native Amerindian people
f. important for medical science

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11.12.2016