Vocabulary
People Using the Amazon Rainforest
Reducing Land Use Conflict
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A broadleaf evergreen forest found in Brazil and other countries in South America.
What is Amazon Rainforest
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This group wants to continue using the Amazon rainforest the way they have used it for 12,000 years.
What is Native Amazonians
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What are 3 main ideas for reducing land use conflict?
What is Promote ecotourism, Encourage sustainable development, Buy products that support the rainforest
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What did the Brazilian government do in the 1960's to encourage people to move to the Amazon?
What is Built a highway.
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The original people who lived in an area before being conquered by a different population.
What is Indigenous
200
This group wants to continue cutting down trees in order to sell furniture, paper, and other wood products.
What is Loggers
200
What are 2 examples of sustainable development in the Amazon rainforest?
Who are What are 2 examples of products that support the Amazon rainforest?
200
What are the 6 groups who use the Amazon rainforest?
What is native amazonians, rubber tappers, environmentalists, settlers, loggers, cattle ranchers
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The process by which carbon and oxygen cycle among plants, people, and animals.
What is Carbon-Oxygen Cycle
300
This group wants to continue their way of life, which involves cutting small slits in rubber trees and collecting the sap.
What is Rubber Tappers
300
What are 2 reasons that the Amazon rainforest is important to the entire planet?
What is the role in the carbon-oxygen cycle and biodiversity
300
What are two reasons that the Amazon rainforest is important to the entire planet?
What is carbon-oxygen cycle, biodiversity
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The variety of plants and animals living in one area.
What is Biodiversity
400
This group wants to continue producing beef to feed Brazilians and people around the world.
What is Cattle Ranchers
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Which idea for reducing land use conflict might benefit settlers? Explain.
What is ANY of the 3 with correct explanation
400
Draw a simple diagram of the carbon-oxygen cycle.
What is ...
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Using resources in ways that meet the needs of people today without hurting the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
What is Sustainability
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This group has been pushed from cities to the Amazon rainforest, and they want to stay there because they have nowhere else to go.
What is Settlers
500
Explain how encouraging sustainable development might benefit 2 different groups in the Amazon rainforest.
What is Answers will vary.
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Who was killed in the Amazon rainforest for trying to protect the rights of rubber tappers?
Who is Chico Mendes
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