The Amazon
Amazon animals
History of Amazon
Amerindians of Amazon
Potpourri
100
The Amazon River flows in this direction
What is east
100
This slow moving animal hangs upside down
What is the sloth
100
This was the goal of "Operation Amazonia"
What is give land to poor people to farm
100
Portuguese settlers either killed Amazon Indians or did this to them
What is made them slaves?
100
Selva is another word for this
What is the rainforest
200
This meat eating fish has razor sharp teeth
What is the pinhana
200
The Brazilwood tree produces dye this color
What is red
200
This many Amazon Indians were killed within 100 years of Europeans coming to their land
What is 2/3
200
Terra firma refers to land that is in this condition
What is dry
300
The amazon doesn't have winter and summer, it has these two seasons.
What is a wet and dry season
300
The pirarucu is this type of animal
What is a fish
300
El Dorado is also called the city of this
What is gold
300
Anthropologists don't think these people are doing good work.
What are missionaries
300
Varzea refers to land that is in this condition
What is flooded or wet from flood water
400
Name one of the South American countries of the Amazon rainforest, besides Brazil.
What is Columbia or Peru or Ecuador or Guyana, or Suriname, or Bolivia.
400
The hoatzin is this type of animal
What is a bird
400
This is why rubber could be produced for cheap in Asia
What is rubber plants could grow on plantations or the insects that destroyed trees in South America didn't exist in Asia.
400
These people from Spain wanted to help the Amazon Indians
What are Catholic priests
400
The wood that weeps produces sap called this
What is rubber
500
This is the name the Brazilians call the Amazon River
What is the River Sea
500
Hoatzin birds build their nests here.
What is over water
500
Name the two European countries that conquered South America
What is Spain and Potugal
500
Rondon set up this group in 1910 in an effort to help the Amazon Indians
What is the Service for the Protection of Indians, or SPI
500
The FUNAI was made in 1968 to do this
What is protect the Amazon Indians (after SPI failed)
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