Environmental Problems
What is the environmental issue in Mexico City?
Air pollution
What is the environmental issue in Brazil?
Deforestation
What river runs mostly through Brazil? It starts in the Andes Mountains and flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
Amazon River
What is the largest and most populated country in Latin America?
Brazil
What body of water lies between Mexico and Florida?
Gulf of Mexico
Provide 2 effects of air pollution.
1. Respiratory Issues
2. Premature Death
3. Lower quality of life
Which country shares a border with the United States?
Mexico
What feature allows ships to pass easily between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans?
Panama Canal
What are two SOLUTIONS to combat deforestation?
1. Educate others
2. Reduce the amount of paper products you use
3. Reforestation
Which country is long and thin and runs along the western coast of South America?
Chile
Which region is home to an incredible diversity of plant, animal and insect species? It is located in the north-eastern portion of South America.
Amazon Rainforest
The mountains prevent air from dispersing the air pollution. The mountains trap the air pollution in the valley/basin.
How has Mexico City reduced the air pollution over the past decade?
1. Hoy no circula (no drive days)
2. Phasing out old vehicles
3. Improved public transportation
4. Reforestation
5. Education / Protocols
Which Caribbean island is located south of Florida?
Cuba
What place in Chile is known as the driest place on Earth?
Atacama Desert
How does cutting down trees increase global warming?
Trees absorb carbon dioxide which is a greenhouse gas. When we cut down the trees, there are less trees to absorb the green house gas...increasing global warming.
Why is the Amazon Rainforest nicknamed, "The Lungs of the Earth?"
Because the region's plants produce more than 20 percent of the world's oxygen supply!!