History Tropical Rainforest Quiz 2 well
answered to pass
What was the government group that was set up to protect the Indians in 1968 - correct answer
✔✔FUNAI
The ________slowly eats its way along, upside down in the trees - correct answer ✔✔sloth
The ______ is a tree-climbing bird because it cannot fly well - correct answer ✔✔hoatzin
T/F People who encourage ecotourism say that travelers will pay to see the rainforest if it is modernized -
correct answer ✔✔False
"The wood that weeps" produces a milky sap that we call - correct answer ✔✔rubber
The _____ is a feared fish of the Amazon River - correct answer ✔✔piranha
Spanish explorers Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisco de Orelana set out in 1541 to find El Dorado or the city
of _______ - correct answer ✔✔Gold
T/F Many Indians died of cruel treatment and disease after the Portuguese came to the Amazon - correct
answer ✔✔True
T/F Most of the Indians were hunter/ gatherers who did not do any kind of farming - correct answer
✔✔False
T/F Brazil is trying to protect the rainforest and make most of it into a national park - correct answer
✔✔False
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