Folk/Popular Culture
In harmony with nature.
What is folk culture?
Food, building materials, clothing, etc.
What are tangible aspects of culture?
The mountain range running north and south along the entire western coast of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains.
What is the Amazon River?
This group has been in the rainforest for approximately 12,000 years.
Who are the Native Amazonians?
Urban, electricity, money.
What is popular culture?
Traditions, values, beliefs.
What are intangible aspects of culture.
The man-made feature allowing for a shortcut between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
What is the Panama Canal?
The Amazon Rainforest is mostly located in this country.
What is Brazil?
This rainforest group defends their position by saying that they want to be able to feed their families.
Who are the settlers?
The term used to describe people who are native to a particular region or area.
What is indigenous?
Farming in order to feed one's family.
What is subsistence farming?
One of the driest places on Earth with less than half an inch of rain a year.
What is the Atacama Desert?
The process that describes the relationship between humans and trees.
What is the carbon-oxygen cycle?
This rainforest group defends their position by saying that all species have a right to exist.
Who are environmentalists?
The type of culture that spreads globally.
What is popular culture?
Cultures who move around and who do not stay in one fixed location.
What are nomadic cultures?
Sierra Madre Oriental and Sierra Madre Occidental.
What are mountain ranges in Mexico?
Trees in the rainforest are largely of this vegetation type.
What is broadleaf evergreen?
The group who benefits the most after the trees have been cut down and the other groups have moved on.
Who are the cattle ranchers?
Differs in space, but not in time...
What is folk culture.
Between the two types of culture, this type is more sustainable.
What is folk culture?
The reason why inhabitants of Latin America speak mostly Spanish and Portuguese.
What is colonialism?
The Amazon tributaries.
What are the rivers that contribute to the Amazon River?
The group who believes it has the best claim to the rainforest because it brings in the most money for the Brazilian economy.
Who are the loggers?