Correo do exerccio (

Passive Voice)
 Replace each icon* with the appropriate verb form to
complete the following sentences in the passive voice as in
the example below.Write the answers in your notebook.

O a) The Amazon produces over 20% of the

worlds oxygen.
O Over 20% of the worlds oxygen is
produced by the Amazon.

b) Deforestation drives climate change.

Climate change is driven by deforestation.
 c) We lose 147 plants and animals every day
due to deforestation.
147 plants and animals are lost every day due
to deforestation.

d) Human activity has put tropical forests at

great risk.
Tropical forests have been put at great risk by
human activity.
 Replace each icon * with the correct form of the verbs in
parentheses to complete the sentences below. Use either the
active voice or the passive voice. Write the answers in your
notebook.

a) The Earth was (cover) by approximately

14.8 bilion acres of forest 8.000 years ago.
covered
b) The highest rates of deforestation (occur)
during the last 50 years.
occurred
b) Between 1980 and 1990, Brazil (lose)
91.4 million acres of tropical forest.
lost
c) In the period from 2000 to 2005, 10.4
million hectares of tropical forest (destroy)
each year.
were destroyed
d) Tropical rainforests (house) an estimated
50% of all life on the planet.
house
f) 40% of the Amazon rainforest (go) by the
year 2050.
will be gone