Exercise 1
1 They release oxygen into the atmosphere, provide shade and are home to many species of animals.
2 People cut down trees to clear land for farming or to provide wood for building.
3 The Earth’s temperature will rise, erosion will cause dust storms and floods, animals will lose their habitats.
Exercise 2
1 absorb 2 Farming 3 Logging 4 rainforest 5 construction 6 effects 7 destruction
Exercise 3
1 deforestation 2 effects 3 animals 4 crops 5 decade 6 erosion 7 warming 8 habitats 9 protected 10 environment
Exercise 4
1 olive palm 2 ten years two or three years 3 2.5 25 times 4 protects destroys 5
oxygen carbon dioxide 6 Small-scale Large-scale
Exercise 5
Possible answers:
1 logging and farming that are done on a large scale by giant corporations
2 The Earth’s climate will become much warmer and thousands of plants and animals will become extinct.
3 Many of the foods we eat and medicines we use come from forests.
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