AO#1 Formation and Change
The mountain range created by subduction on the edge of the South American Plate.
What is the Andes Mountains?
The 4 main characteristics of the Amazon.
What are landforms, climate, vegetation and soil?
The 2 main types of rainfall
What is convectional and orographic rainfall?
The Brazilian Government offers this to mining companies to encourage them to mine.
What are tax breaks/incentives?
The % of the Amazon that Brazil controls.
What is 64%?
The continent that split 500m years ago to form present day South America and Africa.
What is Gondwanaland?
The 4 main areas of relief in the Amazon.
What are the Guiana Shield, the Brazilian Shield, the Andes and the Amazon Basin?
The process where water evaporates from trees into the atmosphere
What is transpiration?
Miners make money from mining for precious metals and minerals.
What is a positive economic impact?
The type of government in Brazil in the 60s and 70s.
What is military dictatorship?
The type of material that makes up the Andes Mountains.
What is sedimentary rock?
The diurnal difference in temperature in the Amazon.
What is 7 degrees?
The breakdown of organic material in humid conditions
What is decomposition?
Large communal houses that the Yanomami live in.
What are Yanos?
The name of the programme that encouraged migrants to move to the Amazon to farm.
What is the Colonialisation Programme?
This caused significant erosion in the Andes 2 million years ago.
What is the Ice Age?
The warm region where warm trade winds converge to create rainfall over the Amazon.
What is the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone?
The impact on the soil when trees are removed
What is an increase in infertile soils/decrease in fertility?
The key idea behind how the indigenous people live in the rainforest.
What is sustainable/sustainability?
The law that restricted landowners from clearing more than 20% of their land.
What is the Forest Code?
The 3 land modifying processes operating in the Amazon Basin.
What is hydrologial erosion, transportation and deposition?
Buttress roots, drip tips, few branches, tall and straight trees.
What are vegetation adaptations in the Amazon?
The fertile material that is deposited on the varzea when the river floods.
What is alluvium?
3 reasons why the Yanomami need to make money.
What is to build wells, maintain ownership of their land and purchase resources like food to survive.
The defunding of IBAMA and the removal of the Forest Code.
What are actions implemented by Jair Bolsonaro after 2018 to increase economic development in Brazil?