Physical Features
People
Ecosystems
Economy and Government
Environmental Issues
100
The fifth-largest country in the world
What is Brazil
100
The outskirts of the cities are filled with slums these are
What are favelas
100
The upper leaves of rainforest trees
What is canopy
100
an economy in which the prices of goods are set by demand, not by the government
What is market economy
100
A fuel that can be made from sugar cane
What is ethanol
200
Brazil's best known physical feature
What is the Amazon River
200
The most common religion in Brazil
What is Catholic
200
Permanently flooded forests
What is igapo
200
The structure of Brazil's national government is similar to that of
What is the United States
200
Much of the destruction of the rainforest occurs in
What is remote areas
300
This river carries more water than any river in the world
What is The Amazon
300
several days of parades, music, and dance that comes before lent
What is Carnival
300
Most nutrients in the forest are stored in
What is the trees
300
Brazil is one of the worlds major exporters of
What is coffee
300
generate means
What is to produce
400
A giant plain
What is a Cerrado
400
Brazil's three capitals
What is Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, and Salvador
400
Seasonally flooded forests are called
What is varzea
400
Despite Brazil's growing economy what still remains wide spread?
What is poverty
400
Many modern medicines have come from
What is the tropical rainforest
500
The closer you are to this the warmer you will be
What is the equator
500
People that reside in Brazil are normally descendants of what ethnicities
What is African, European, and Native Americans
500
a kind of web of living things that are tied to one another and to their environment
What is ecosystems
500
sugar cane is used to make this form of fuel
What is ethanol
500
the Amazons ecosystem is
What is being destroyed
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