Vocab
Laws and Leaders, examples include democracy and communism.
What is government?
Mountains running down the west coast of LA
What are the Andes?
About 7,700 square mi (20,000 square km) of forest, an area almost as large as the New Jersey in the United States, are now cut down each year for timber and to make way for highways, settlements, pasture for cattle, crops, and other purposes.
What is deforestation (in the Amazon)?
Major religion of LA
What is Catholic?
A natural resource's primary applications are in electrical wiring, roofing, plumbing, and industrial machinery.
What is copper?
Jobs and Money, diversification is important. Wealth is created by natural resources, educated workers, large infrastructure, a stable government and available healthcare.
What is economy?
The rainforest and river in LA countries mostly in Brazil
What is the Amazon?
What are the cuases of pollution in South America?
Major language in LA
What is Spanish?
What are poverty and inequlity?
Land and Water which impacts the culture and economy of a country.
What is geography?
A geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile.The contemporary economy of this region revolves around sheep farming and oil and gas extraction,and tourism.
What is Patagonia?
What is sewage?
Traiditional dances in LA
What is Salsa and Samba?
Harvesting nuts and rubber.
What are activites that provide jobs and help the economy grow without cutting down the trees or the rainforest?
It's what we do including beliefs and language that unify people as a country.
What is culture?
An arid plateau in South America covering a 1,600 km strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes Mountains in Chile.
What is the Atacama Desert?
Precipitation patterns are shifting, temperatures are rising, and some areas are experiencing changes in the frequency and severity of weather extremes such as heavy rains. The impacts range from melting Andean glaciers to devastating floods and droughts.
What are some impacts of climate change in South America?
An Incan citadel set high in the Andes Mountains in Peru, above the Urubamba River valley. Built in the 15th century and later abandoned, it’s renowned for its sophisticated dry-stone walls that fuse huge blocks without the use of mortar, intriguing buildings that play on astronomical alignments and panoramic views.
What is Machu Picchu?
An economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses.
What is a free-market economy?
People impact Earth including choices children and adults make each day related to their transportation (including deliveries), use of water (including laundry), amount of clothing, use and responsibility of products (including school supplies), understanding of origin of electricity (used to plug in appliances) and goods (from factories).
What is Human Environment Interaction?
The world's highest uninterrupted waterfall, located in Venezuela
What is Angel Falls?
Pursuing new policies to curb deforestation and forest degradation; reducing emissions from cars, trucks and buses; and promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy.
What are some solutions to help slow global warming?
A Chilean territory, is a remote volcanic island in Polynesia. Its native name is Rapa Nui. It’s famed for archaeological sites, including nearly 900 monumental statues called moai, created by inhabitants during the 13th–16th centuries. The moai are carved human figures with oversize heads, often resting on massive stone pedestals called ahus
What is Easter Island?
What are the main exports of South America that help drive it's economy?