Terms 1
The amount of money required to maintain a certain standard of living.
What is cost of living?
The minimum income required to meet basic needs.
What is the poverty line?
They plan crops and keep livestock to feed their own families.
What is subsistence farmers?
Christopher Columbus landed on this island and claimed it for the Spanish. (Hint - the land is known today as Haiti.)
What is Hispaniola?
The number of infant deaths for every 1,000 live births.
What is the infant mortality rate?
Being forced out of your home to live in tents and temporary shelters.
What is displaced? (Or, what is displacement?)
The ability to read and write.
What is literate?
The name for people who come from Haiti.
What are the Haitians?
The process of cutting and clearing trees for fuel or farmland.
What is deforestation?
The targeted killing of a political person such as a president.
What is an assination?
Because mothers do not have access to this their is a high infant mortality rate.
What is healthcare?
The first country to colonize Haiti and bring slaves to the island.
What is Spain?
A common natural disaster that has displaced many people all over Haiti.
What is an earthquake?
A common natural disaster that has destroyed much of the usable farmland.
What is a hurricane?
Crops that are grown not to feed the people but to export to other countries in exchange for money.
What are cash crops?
The second country to colonize Haiti and then built large plantations of sugarcane that soon wore out the soil.
What are the French?
An economy that produces a variety of products and services.
What is a diversified economy?
A great variety of plants and animals.
What is biodiversity?
A type of tourism that supports a region's wildlife ecology and conservation efforts.
What is ecotourism?
A disease common in Haiti as a result of poor unfiltered water.
What is cholera?