Reading Exercise
Instructions:
Use skimming and scanning techniques to find the answers.
Questions
1. What is the Amazon rainforest often called?
2. What role does the Amazon rainforest play in the global climate?
3. What is a major threat to the Amazon rainforest?
4. How does deforestation affect biodiversity?
5. What is the main idea of the passage?
Answers and Explanation
Answers
1. The lungs of the Earth
- Skimming the first sentence
2. Absorbs carbon dioxide and releases oxygen
- Scanning for keywords: carbon dioxide, oxygen
3. Deforestation for agriculture and logging
- Scanning for threats
4. Reduces the diversity of species
- Scanning the sentence with "biodiversity"
5. The Amazon rainforest's crucial role and the threat of deforestation
- Main idea
Explanation:
Review how skimming and scanning helped locate the answers.