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The Amazon Rainforest
Why Is the Amazon Rainforest Important?
n. an element that animals must breathe to survive
All living things on the earth need oxygen to
oxygen
survive. The Amazon rainforest produces more than
twenty percent of the world’s oxygen. However,
to chop down, as in trees
v.
cut down
people cut down trees to use the land for farming in
the rainforest.
Unit 5 | The Amazon Rainforest
