rain forest

1. Match the two parts of these sentences.

People live in rain forests, too. They know a lot about animals and plants. They collect fruit, roots, nuts and other parts of plants to eat. They also catch animals for food. Some people make medicines from plants.

Some people cut down the trees to make farms but they do not plant any

new trees. Many birds, animals and insects die because they have nowhere to live.

Some people do not live in rain forests but they go to rain forests to cut down the trees and sell the wood to make money.

Rain forests are very important because many things come from them, for

example, wood, bananas, coffee and nuts. But our forests are in danger because people are cutting down too many trees every year.

When there are no more trees in a forest and the animals eat the grass and the small plants, the forest becomes a desert.