Vocab
Conflict Resolution
Amazon Groups
Geoterms
Uses of the Rainforest
100
A unit for measuring land, equal to one football field
What is an acre?
100
Quiz word: a fight or argument
What is a dispute?
100
The three groups who use the rainforest's resources sustainably
Who are Native Amazonians, rubber tappers and environmentalists?
100
The rapid cutting-down of trees so that they usually won't grow back
What is deforestation?
100
This substance is made by drying sap from a type of tree and is used to make erasers, tires and more
What is rubber?
200
A low lying area that drains rivers and tributaries
What is a basin?
200
Quiz word: a plan or suggestion up for discussion
What is a proposal?
200
The three groups who came to the rainforest in the 1960s
Who are ranchers, loggers and settlers?
200
A broadleaf evergreen forest near the equator
What is a tropical rainforest?
200
Native Amazonians found a way around this issue, but poor settlers have found that the soil in the rainforest is not fertile enough for this activity
What is farming?
300
A piece of land that is protected from development and settlement
What is a reserve?
300
A method of resolving conflict where both sides give up some of what they want
What is a compromise?
300
Scientists, scholars, church workers and human rights activists are all part of this group
Who are environmentalists?
300
Development that doesn't hurt the environment
What is sustainable development?
300
This animal may not seem like it belongs in the rainforest, but it is raised on deforested land to feed the world and bring money to Brazil
What is a cow/cattle?
400
A type of electricity that is generated by damming water and releasing it
What is hydroelectric power?
400
Facing a problem or situation; taking action
What is confrontation?
400
This group cuts down trees because deforested land sells for a higher price than forested land
Who are settlers?
400
The variety of plants and animals living in an area; the great variety of all living things on Earth
What is biodiversity?
400
This industry causes a lot of damage to the rainforest, but it provides wood for paper mills and furniture factories 
What is logging?
500
Someone who settles on land that is not theirs
What is a squatter?
500
A solution to a problem where everyone gets what they want
What is a Win-Win resolution?
500
This group encouraged poor Brazilians and wealthy ranchers to move to the rainforest
Who are government leaders?
500
The process through which carbon and oxygen flows between animals, such as humans, and the environment
What is the carbon-oxygen cycle?
500
The phrase "the lungs of the Earth" refers to the Amazon rainforest's role in the...
What is the carbon-oxygen cycle?
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