Crop rotation is a strategy used by farmers where a different type of crop is grown on the same soil every season. An example would be growing corn one season and the next season using the
same field to grow peanuts. Each type of plant requires different nutrients and returns different
nutrients to the soil. What impact can crop rotation have on the environment?

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Taking more Carbon Dioxide out of the atmosphere

Releasing more oxygen into the atmosphere

Giving the farmer more money due to crop diversity

Allowing fields to be used longer reducing the need for new f

The Amazon rainforest is currently being burned down at an alarming rate. According to the New
York Times, most of the deforestation is being illegally caused by ranchers. Cattle is a $6 Billion
industry in Brazil. In 2009 an agreement between the largest beef packing plants and Brazil was
reached to stop the deforestation. The packing plants agreed to only purchase cattle from
established, legal farms. The hope was that deforestation would stop. Recently many countries
began putting sanctions or bans on Brazilian beef. Which of the following statements best explains
why the rest of the world want to stop the deforestation of the Amazon?

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The forest is a large carbon sink that could impact global warming

The world may have too little oxygen to survive without the rainforest

Citizens from other countries would be upset there was no forest to visit

The cattle industry in other countries is growing so Brazilian beef isn’t needed

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Which of the following would be an example of sustainable land use?

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Regulating how timber is cut and planted for paper goods

Clear cutting a forest for an agricultural field

Using oceans to put waste in so toxins do not leak into the soil

Deregulating pesticide uses so the best pesticides get used the longest