(Score for Question 5: of 2 points) 5. What is the relationship between land use in general and deforestation?
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6. Visit NASA's Earth Observatory page on deforestation (https://earthobservatory. nasa. gov/world-of-
change/Deforestation). Click play on the image to watch a slideshow of images of satellite photos of Rondônia
in western Brazil. What are the signs of deforestation in the images? What are the primary causes of the
deforestation you observe?
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7. How does this deforestation affect the fertility of the land?
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8. What could we change about the way we use land to reduce deforestation, such as that observed in
Rondônia?