RAS question
The Amazon rainforest is primarily located in:
Correct answer: (A) Brazil (about 60%).
The Amazon rainforest is primarily located in Brazil, which contains about 60 percent of the rainforest in its northern region.
Explanation
Brazil is the right answer because the question asks where the Amazon rainforest is primarily located, not every country it touches. About 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest is in Brazil, with extensions into Peru, Colombia and six other countries. The World Bank gives the same distribution point: the Amazon biome ranges across nine countries, but 60 percent of the rainforest lies in northern Brazil. It also describes the Amazon as the largest continuous tropical rainforest in the world, so its location is a core world-geography fact rather than a minor regional detail. The other listed countries do not host the Amazon rainforest.
Why the other options are wrong
- (B) China is wrong because the Amazon rainforest is not in China; World Bank locates 60 percent of it in northern Brazil.
- (C) India is wrong because the Amazon rainforest extends from Brazil into Peru, Colombia and six other countries, not into India.
- (D) Australia is wrong because the prompt itself distinguishes it as having different ecosystems, while the verified Amazon distribution centres on Brazil and other Amazon-basin countries.
Concept
This tests the world-geography concept of major biomes and their regional location. It recurs in RAS because rainforest distribution connects physical geography with climate, biodiversity and environment questions.