How should Brazil care for it’s
rainforest
Essay writing
What should be included in your assignment?
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Introduction -
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A. Where is Brazil?
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What is the rainforest and why is it important?
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Resources – Notes from lessons
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Atlas
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Internet research
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Q1. Ways that the rainforest is being used
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A. Explain what the word exploit means
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Describe and explain why the trees are being cleared
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Explain why the trees and the land that has been cleared is being used for
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Resources – Notes from Video /
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Worksheet
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Geog 2 page 52
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Q2. Why and how are they doing this –
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Explain the reasons behind Brazil clearing the rainforest
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Explain the inequalities in Brazil, explaining and describing what life in like in the favela compared to other parts of Brazil
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Resources – Noes from video about the Favela
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Geog 2 page 113 and 118
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How are Brazil going to make money from the rainforest to resolve the inequality
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Worksheet – Why does Brazil need to do this
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Q3. We should be concerned about the future and deforestation because
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Describe and explain the local and global concerns of cutting down all the trees
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Resources – Questions answered from the video
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Why should we be concerned worksheet
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Q4. IN the future people of Brazil must decide what to do, I think
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Explain in this question what sustainable development is and how successful it could be
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Are there other ways to make money from the rainforest without destroying it
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What are your ideas and conclusions
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Resources – Questions answered from the video
Question 1
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What to include –
Develop your answers
Why? What? Where? How? Who by?
Identify, Describe, Explain, use examples, evaluate
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What is the rainforest being used for?
Logging
Mining
Roads
Ranching
Hydroelectric Dams
Farming
Mind Map of how the Brazilian rainforest is being used and its
effects…..
Local Effect
Local Effect
Global Effect
Local Effect
Why?
Mining
Why?
Why?
Global Effect
Global Effect
Logging
Mining
Using the
Rain
Forest
Local Effect
Local Effect
Farming
Why?
Global Effect
Cattle Ranching
Why?
Global Effect
Question 2 - Why does Brazil need to do these things?
Mining
Valuable minerals to sell.
Resources for industry.
Creates jobs.
Oil and Gas for energy
and to sell
Farms
New, better life for people
where they own land and
make more money so can pay
for their children’s education.
Growing crops for food and to
sell.
Roads
To get to trees and resources.
Access to mines, farms and
ranches. Can move goods to
markets to sell.
Logging
To raise money to
Timber (wood) to make
help pay to develop
furniture, plywood and paper
Brazil from LIC to
to sell.
HIC.
Resources for industry.
Creates jobs.
Clears land.
Why is Brazil
doing these
things?
Money for schools,
hospitals, roads,
power stations,
railways, sewage
systems, clean water.
Ranching
Beef for food
or to sell.
Creates jobs.
HEP
Cheap energy for
businesses and homes.
Can sell any spare
electricity to other
countries
Why do Brazil need to develop the
rainforest?
• Brazil is need for money?
• Why? What sort of country is Brazil?
• How do we know this? Inequality examples?
• Favela – life living in a slum page 113
• What is life like for Pedro? Page 118
• How developed is Brazil? – Booklet
• Chart showing development – how rich or poor is Brazil?
• What is a development indicators?
• Life expectancy / Literacy rate / GDP per capita
Question 3 - Why should we be concerned?
• Local effects:
• Indios people
• Dams flood land
• Homeless
• Hunting ground lost.
• Conflict with settlers
• Diseases brought to the area
• Habitats lost
• Plants and animals
• Cleared land soon becomes
infertile, so more land must be
cleared for farms and ranches
 Global effects:
 Plants and animals lose
habitat
 Extinct
 Medicinal plants
 Medical drugs of the future
 Trees and plants capture
Carbon dioxide
 Greenhouse effect
 Global warming
Why worry about the
Amazonian rain forest?
• Global effects:
• Medicines Page 119 geog 2
• Global Warming Page 78 geog 2
• Effects on animal and plant habitats
• Local effects:
• Indios people Page 29 in Places
Global effects: New Medicines
• Page 119 Geog 2
• Global effect? How could this effect us?
Some of the compounds in rainforest plants are also used to treat :
Malaria, heart disease, bronchitis, hypertension, rheumatism, diabetes, muscle tension,
arthritis, glaucoma, dysentery and tuberculosis, among other health problems.
Also many an anaesthetics, enzymes, hormones, laxatives, cough mixtures, antibiotics
and antiseptics are derived from rainforest plants and herbs.
Global effect: Climate change
• Page 78 geog 2
• Think about science…
• How do plants get their energy?
• Which gas do they take from the atmosphere to help them do this?
What has happened to global temperatures as CO2 levels have
increased?
We are burning more and more fossils fuels.
This releases more and more carbon dioxide.
The rain forest tree and plants absorb CO2.
But now the climate of the whole planet to changing.
The levels you are aiming for…
Level 4: DESCRIBE HOW and WHY the rain forest is being
exploited. What is the impact of deforestation. (geog 2 page 118, video)
Level 5: DESCRIBE and EXPLAIN HOW and WHY
AMAZONIA is being exploited with examples HOW this
AFFECTS PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT.(geog 2 page 118,
video)
Level 6: As level 4 & 5 plus DESCRIBE HOW destruction of
the rainforest causes local and global problems and
SUGGEST ways in which Brazil can BALANCE it’s search for
wealth whilst protecting the environment. EXPLAIN how
sustainable development could help. (geog 2 page 118-119, video clips)
Level 7: As level 6 plus WHO IS RESPONSIBLE for dealing
with this problem in the future? (geog 2 page 118)