How should Brazil care for it’s rainforest

Essay writing

What should be included in your assignment?• Introduction - • A. Where is Brazil?• What is the rainforest and why is it important?• Resources – Notes from lessons • Atlas• Internet research• Q1. Ways that the rainforest is being used• A. Explain what the word exploit means• Describe and explain why the trees are being cleared• Explain why the trees and the land that has been cleared is being used for• Resources – Notes from Video / • Worksheet• Geog 2 page 52• Q2. Why and how are they doing this – • Explain the reasons behind Brazil clearing the rainforest• Explain the inequalities in Brazil, explaining and describing what life in like in the favela compared to other parts of Brazil• Resources – Noes from video about the Favela• Geog 2 page 113 and 118• How are Brazil going to make money from the rainforest to resolve the inequality• Worksheet – Why does Brazil need to do this• Q3. We should be concerned about the future and deforestation because• Describe and explain the local and global concerns of cutting down all the trees• Resources – Questions answered from the video• Why should we be concerned worksheet• Q4. IN the future people of Brazil must decide what to do, I think• Explain in this question what sustainable development is and how successful it could be• Are there other ways to make money from the rainforest without destroying it• What are your ideas and conclusions• Resources – Questions answered from the video

Question 1

• What to include – • Develop your answers• Why? What? Where? How? Who by?• Identify, Describe, Explain, use examples, evaluate

• What is the rainforest being used for?• Logging• Mining• Roads• Ranching• Hydroelectric Dams• Farming

• What does the word Exploitation mean?

Mind Map of how the Brazilian rainforest is being used and its effects…..

Using the Rain

Forest

Mining

Mining

Farming Cattle Ranching

Logging

Why?

Why? Why?

Why?Why?

Local Effect

Global Effect

Local Effect Local Effect

Local Effect

Local Effect Global Effect

Global EffectGlobal Effect

Global Effect

Question 2 - Why does Brazil need to do these things?

FarmsNew, 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.

MiningValuable minerals to sell. Resources for industry. Creates jobs.Oil and Gas for energy and to sell

RoadsTo get to trees and resources.Access to mines, farms and ranches. Can move goods to markets to sell.

HEPCheap energy for

businesses and homes.Can sell any spare electricity to other

countries

RanchingBeef for food

or to sell.Creates jobs.

LoggingTimber (wood) to make

furniture, plywood and paper to sell.

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.

To raise money to help pay to develop Brazil from LIC to

HIC.

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?

The rain forest tree and plants absorb CO2.

But now the climate of the whole planet to changing.

We are burning more and more fossils fuels. This releases more

and more carbon dioxide.

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)