Question

In what type of houses the people stay in the Amazon River basin?
A. RCC
B. Tree house
C. Boat house
D. Thatched wooden house

Answer 1

Hint: The rainforest provides a large amount of wood to build houses. The houses built here are of two types. One is shaped like a beehive and the other is apartment-like.

Complete Answer:
- The equatorial region is the tropical region near the equator, between 10°N and 10°S, from where the Amazon River flows in South America, starting from the mountains in the west to the Atlantic Ocean in the east.
- Many tributaries join the Amazon, and together they constitute the huge area known as the Amazon basin which covers parts of Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Columbia, and Venezuela. The climate in the Amazon Basin is hot and wet all around the year; both days and nights are equally hot and humid. The rain occurs almost every day with the temperature during the days being higher than the nights, although humidity remains high during both.
- People grow the majority of their food in small areas after clearing the trees there; men mostly hunt and fish along the river and women take care of the crops.
- They largely grow tapioca, pineapple, and sweet potato, with manioc or cassava (an under-ground vegetable) being the staple diet.
- 'Slash and burn' is the main type of agriculture practised here. Since hunting and fishing are not certain, women grow and use vegetables to feed their families.
- The rainforest provides a large amount of wood to build houses. The houses built are of two types: Thatched houses shaped like beehives and Maloca -apartment like houses with steeply slanting roofs.

Hence the correct answer is option (D) Thatched wooden house.

Note: The Amazon rainforest has the title of the world’s largest tropical rainforest and does the crucial responsibility of providing Earth with 20% of its oxygen supply. After the Nile, the Amazon River which runs through the Amazon rainforest is the world’s second-longest river but is the world’s largest by water volume.