The Rainforest Quiz

Test your rainforest knowledge! Learn about continents, deforestation, and environmental impacts.

1. Which continents have tropical rainforests? Choose all the correct answers. Europe South America Africa Antarctica Asia 3. What percentage of the Earth's surface was covered by rainforests in 1950? 15% 5% 25% 4. What percentage of the Earth's surface is covered by rainforests today? 4% 6% 10% 2. Answer the following question. Which is the largest rainforest in the world? The Amazon rainforest 5. How many square kilometres of the rainforests are destroyed in one year? 13,000 30,000 130,000 6. What is the main cause of the destruction of the rainforests? 7. How does the destruction of the rainforests affect the environment in the rest of the world? Choose two answers. There's not as much rain. It produces more wood for building. There's not enough land for farming. There's less global warming. There's less oxygen to breath. 8. Destroying the rainforests destroys the way of life of the people who live there. It also destroys ...................................................... 9. Compete the sentences with words presented in class today. 1. Many parts of the world are affected by global warming.2. Africa and Asia are both continents.3. They want to save this old building. It's not easy because it's made of wood.4. Be careful! This surface is so slippery. It's covered with ice.5. My uncle only buys cars that are produced in Japan.6. The firefighters believe that a campfire was the cause of the forest fire.7. Ninety percent of the students in my class volunteer at the Children's Center.8. We can grow more food with less water by using technology in farming.9. It was hard to breathe on the mountain because there wasn't enough oxygen.