People in Amazon

Q. What is the method of agriculture that is practised by the people of the Amazon?

1. Conventional
2. Terrace Farming
3. Slash-and-burn
4. Precision Farming

Q. Select the crops that are grown by the people of the Amazon.

1. Coffee
2. Maize
3. Cocoa
4. Manioc

Q.

Which of the following is the chief food crop of the Amazon basin?

1. Beans

2. Cassava

3. Wheat

4. Oat

Q. Which of the following are cash crops grown by the people in the Amazon?

1. Coffee
2. Cassava
3. Maize
4. Cocoa

Q. In 1970, the ________________ highway was built to make the Amazon rainforest more accessible.

1. Trans-Atlantic
2. Trans-Pacific
3. Trans-Brasilia
4. Trans-Amazon

Q.

Manioc is the staple food of

1. Amazon

2. Africa

3. Europe

4. Ganga basin

Q. Some people in the Amazon live in large apartment-like houses called _________.

1. Manioc
2. Tapirs
3. Madocas
4. Malocas

Q. Which of these modes of transportation can be used in the Amazon River Basin today?

1. Helicopters
2. Cars
3. Boats
4. Trains

Q. Which of the following are reasons for the depletion of the forests in the Amazon?

1. Clearing of land for large-scale farming
2. Cutting of trees
3. Forest fires
4. Rituals of the local tribes in the Amazon

Q. Which of the following crops are commonly grown by the people living in the Amazon?

1. Coffee
2. Wheat
3. Sweet potato
4. Cassava

Q. The people of the Amazon practise ________________ agriculture.

1. slash-and-burn
2. burn-and-stay
3. cut-and-cultivate
4. slash-and-cultivate

Q. In 1970, the ________________ highway was built to make the Amazon rainforest more accessible.

1. Trans-Atlantic
2. Trans-Brasilia
3. Trans-Pacific
4. Trans-Amazon

Q. Suncorp, a new corporation with limited funds has been clearing large sections of the tropical Amazon forest for cattle ranching. This practice continues even though greater profits can be made from rubber tapping which does not destroy the forest than from cattle ranching which does destroy the forest.
Which of the following if true most helps to explain why Suncorp has been pursuing the less profitable of the two economic activities mentioned above?

1. The soil of the Amazon forest is very rich in nutrients that are important in the development of grazing lands
2. Cattle-ranching operations that are located in tropical climates are more profitable than cattle-ranching operations that are located in cold-weather climates
3. In certain districts profits made from cattle ranching are more heavily taxed than profits made from any other industry
4. Some of the cattle that are raised on land cleared in the Amazon are killed by wildcats
5. The amount of money required to begin a rubber-tapping operation is twice as high as the amount needed to begin a cattle ranch

Q. Arrange the steps involved in slash and burn agriculture in the correct order, from top to bottom.

1. Identify land
2. Felling of trees
3. Setting fire
4. Sowing
5. Abandoning Land