Question

1. Get to know some important facts about the Amazon rainforest. Replace the icon with the appropriate form of the verbs in parentheses to complete the following sentences. Use the passive voice. Write the answers in your notebook.

a. 20% of the Earth's oxygen (produce) by the Amazon rainforest.

b. Sand from the Sahara (blow) by the wind all the way to the Amazon, recharging its minerals. The desert literally fertilizes the rainforest.

c. Iquitos, Peru is the largest city in the world inaccessible by road. It ✪ (locate) deep in the Amazon rainforest and has over 400,000 people.

d. During the past 40 years, at least 20% of the Amazon rainforest ✪ (cut down).

e. The Amazon River, according to many accounts, (name) by Spanish explorer Francisco de

Orellana in 1541.

f. The length of the Amazon (measure) from the source of the Ucayali river, which joins with the Maranon to eventually form the Amazon.

g. Much of northern Brazil

(drain) by the Rio Negro.

h. The forest areas (describe) by amount of flooding that occurs: not flooded, occasionally flooded or regularly flooded.

i. The floral provinces of Amazonia (mark) by geographic variations in sunlight, rainfall, temperature and soils.​

Answer 1

a) is produced

b) is blown

c) is located

d) has been cut down

e) was named

f) is measured

g) is drained

h) are described

i) are marked