Physical Geography
This river is the largest in the world and sits primarily in Brazil
The Amazon River
The act of leaving ones country vs moving to a new country
Emigrate vs Immigrate
The Amazon rainforest recycles roughly 20-25% of the world's air through this cycle
Carbon-Oxygen Cycle
he unequal distribution of wealth or resources in a geographic area, so that some places are richer than others
Spatial Inequality
These two pieces of human culture unite Latin America together into one region.
Spanish and Portuguese
This peninsula juts out into the Caribbean and sits on the Southeast side of Mexico
The Yucatan Peninsula
The steady flow of migrants from one country to another is called...
Migration Stream
Deforestation
an overcrowded, dirty area of a city where the housing is usually in very poor condition
Slum
The tallest waterfall in the world, is named what, and lies within what country?
Angel Falls, Venezuela
Home to the Panama Canal, this famous geographical feature connects two western hemisphere continents.
The isthmus of Panama
2 parts -
War, economic downturn, famine, drought, and persecution all fall under this category in the topic of migration
Economic opportunity is by far the common example of this topic of migration
Push Factors
Pull Factors
The group seeking to preserve the Amazon in its natural state.
Environmentalists
worsening economic conditions in the countryside, including rising unemployment and growing poverty.
Rural Decline
Rainforests around the world account for roughly 50% of the world's biodiversity while only taking up this much space.
6%
This desert plateau in South America covers a 1,600 km (990 mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast of Chile
The Atacama Desert
Brain Drain
This idea for reducing conflict invites people to travel in search of biodiversity and invest in preservation of local areas around the world.
Ecotourism
the overall level of comfort and well-being of a group or a country.
Standard of Living
the movement of people from rural to urban areas, resulting in the growth of urban areas
Urbanization
The Amazon Rainforest, which accounts for nearly 10% of all the biosphere on earth, is predominantly what vegetation zone?
Broadleef Evergeen Forest
Diffusion
The process by which people utilize resources from the rainforest while not hurting the ability of future generations to meet their own needs as well.
Sustainable development.
The measurement of the distribution of income across a population.
Gini Index
As the most urbanized region in the world, Latin America hosts this percentage of their entire population in cities
80%