Amazon Rain Forest
History/Government/
Economics
Culture
Geography
Miscellaneous
100
The 6 groups conflicted in the Amazon Rain Forest.
What is settlers, cattle ranchers, Natives, rubber tappers, environmentalists and loggers.
100
Most of the countries in Latin America were colonized by this European country.
What is Spain?
100
The most popular sport of entertainment in Latin America.
What is soccer?
100
There are ___ independent nations in Latin America.
What is 33?
100
The total sum of goods and services produced in one year for a country.
Gross Domestic Product
200
The group that causes the most destruction to the Rain Forest.
What is cattle ranchers?
200
Brazil is the largest country in South America and the only country that primarily speaks _____________.
What is Portuguese?
200
Floating gardens that were unique to the grand capital, Tenochtitlan, of the Aztec Empire.
What is the chinampas?
200
The Andes mountains is located on which region of Latin America?
What is South America?
200
First three levels of economic activity.
Primary (agriculture)

Secondary (manufacturing)
Tertiary (service)

300
The _______________is the group that needs a place to live due to the lack of land available elsewhere.
What is the settlers?
300
Brazil was conquered by ____________
What is Portugal?
300
The majority of Latin Americans practice this religion.
What is Roman Catholicism?
300
The rain forest is located in which physical feature of Latin America.
What is the Amazon Basin?
300
Term describing percentage of people that can read and write in a country.
What is literacy rate?
400
This group is conflicted because the resources needed to make their product is being cut down by the loggers.
What is the rubber tappers?
400
Three of the most influential indigenous people of Latin America.
What is the Aztecs, the Incas and the Mayans?
400
Salsa, Merengue, and Cha Cha are all ____________
Latin American Dances
400
The narrow strip of land that connects Central America to South America.
What is an isthmus?
400
The incas started terrace farming which is a method of farming that takes place on ____________.
steep hillsides (mountainous region of the Andes)
500
This group wants to extract resources sustainably from the rain forest for research.
What is the environmentalists?
500
The Aztecs of ___________were conquered by Hernan Cortes.
What is Mexico?
500
A type of trade in the ____________ mountains between lowland and highland areas is called vertical trade.
Andes
500
The 2nd longest river in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
500
Conquistador that conquered the Incas
Francisco Pizarro
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