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Lesson 9 – Self-Assessment Test
Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer(s):
1. Tropical forests are disappearing at the
annual rate of:
a) 3.7 million hectares
b) 7.3 million hectares
c) 4.2 million hectares
d) 6.7 hectares
e) 7.6 hectares
2. Two countries that have substantially
increased forests are:
a) Africa and Asia
b) Philippines and Malaysia
c) China and South Korea
d) Canada and the United States
e) Brazil and Argentina
3. According to a U.N. study,
deforestation has reduced the natural
area of tropical rain forests by:
a) 15 percent
b) 20 percent
c) 25 percent
d) 35 percent
e) 40 percent
4. The major human-made cause of
deforestation is:
a) logging
b) fuel
c) wood pulp for papermaking
d) unequal land tenure
e) farming
5. Shifting cultivation is still practiced:
a) even though it is very inefficient
b) in backward regions of the world
c) in harmony with nature
d) by landless people
e) by logging companies
6. Governments in South and Central
America have provided tax incentives
that:
a) encourage forest conservation
b) transform forests into grazing lands
c) relieve deforestation of rain forests
d) provide for tree replanting
e) none of the above
7. According to a World Bank study,
firewood planting must increase _____
to avoid serious forest damage
a) five times the current rate
b) twice the current rate
c) 10 times the current rate
d) 50,000 hectares a year
e) three times the current rate
8. Determining where deforestation has
taken place is difficult because:
a) it does not respond well to
measurement
b) of definitional problems
c) deforestation is an overall trend
d) of reliable data
e) of lack of government cooperation
9. Most Third World countries are _____
of forest products.
a) able to satisfy their need
b) careful users
c) exporters
d) importers
e) wealthy owners