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When trees are cut down to make room for agriculture.
What is Deforestation
Brazil's best known physical feature.
What is the Amazon River.
Zero degrees latitude is also known as
What is the equator.
The divisions of the Earth's surface that are used to determine the local time.
What are time zones.
The widespread cutting and removal of trees.
What is deforestation.
The human, physical, and environmental characteristics of a location that distinguish it from any other.
What is place.
The area of Brazil that contains savannah, a parklike landscape of grasslands, as well as forests.
What is Cerrado.
Zero degrees longitude is a known as
What is the Prime Meridian
There are this many time zones in the world.
What is 24.
Several thousand of the plants in the Amazon basin are know to be useful in fighting many different diseases so it is known as
What is nature's pharmacy.
An imaginary line around the Earth that is an equal distance from the North and South Poles.
What is the equator.
The interactions and relationships between living and non-living beings in a particular environment.
What is an ecosystem.
Another name for lines of latitude are
What are parallels
Each time zone is approximately this many degrees of longitude.
What is 15 degrees.
This is the third largest industry in Saskatchewan.
What is mining.
Distance north or south from the equator.
What is latitude.
A forested area within the Amazon basin that is regularily flooded.
What is the igapo.
What are meridians.
The telling of time using the seasons, the stars and seasonal events is linked to which group.
Who are the First Nations.
These are slum areas in Brazil's cities where large numbers of people live.
What are favelas.
The movement of people from rural to urban areas.
What is urbanization.
Most of Brazil's major cities are located here.
What is the coast.
Lines of longitude are NOT parallel and meet at
What is the poles.
The line on the Earth's surface that is internationally agreed upon as the place where each new calendar day begins.
What is the International Date Line.
This city in Brazil is working on becoming more Green.
What is Curitiba.