Deforestation
Lifestyle of the People
Economics
Geography
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Since the year 1970 the Amazon Rainforest has been subject to...
What is the Deforestation?
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Something that most tribal people living in the Amazon lack is...
What is education?
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The Amazon economic development is supported by industry production, agriculture production and tourism.
What are the three most important sectors that supported the Amazon economic development?
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The climate of the Amazon is best described as being...
What is a tropical region? The Amazon has lots of rain and high humidity with average temperatures of about 80 degrees fahrenheit during the day and about 50 degrees fahrenheit at night. Heavy rainfall occurs in short periods of time and but adds up to be about 300 cm per year. January through April is the wettest season, while June through November are the dry months.
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60% of this country is part of the Amazon Basin
What is Brazil?
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What are some reasons people resort to deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest?
What is the clearing of land for commercial agriculture, logging and the improvement of infrastructure?
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What is one thing that the many different tribes of people living in the Amazon have that is different from one another?
What is the language that they speak? The Amazon is home to about 400 different groups of people that each have their own language and culture.
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What is the largest sector component of GDP at 69.9%?
What is the electronics industry? Amazon is a thriving international electronics industry, exports an eclectic mix of products. The goods produced there are exported to all South American countries. There has a great electronics industry with brands like Sony, Panasonic and others. This is a result of Brazilian economic policies towards the Amazon region in the seventies. Amazonas exports the mobile phones 48.7%, others electronics 19.5%, motorcycles 7.7%.
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The land of the Amazon is mostly...
What is dense forest landscape, filled with a vast amount of plant and animal species?
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This outstanding natural feature stretches over two and a half million square miles of the Earth's surface.
What is the Amazon Basin?
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Without the Amazon Rainforest this would happen...
What is D- Day, the end of Earth as we know it, the death of us all? Without the Amazon Rainforest massive levels of carbon dioxide released into the Earth’s atmosphere, destroying Earth's atmosphere, causing global temperatures to sky-rocket, major global flooding and possibly the death of all living things.
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This tribal is that of the largest group of people living in the Amazon...
What is the Yanomami tribe?
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What is another industry that also important to Amazon economy?
What is the natural rubber industry? Rubber was responsible for the first economic cycle of development in the Amazon. As the Amazon rainforest is one of the most important producers of natural rubber in the world. The latex or rubber produced 12.4% of all exported products in Amazon.
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Some would say that the Amazon's most oustanding geological feature is...
What is the Amazon River?
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The Amazon Rainforest produces 15% of the world's new...
What is oxygen?
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Some negatives of deforestation would be...
What is the destruction of indigenous animal habitats, contributing to global warming, and endangering the Amazon Rainforest itself?
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How do most people living in the Amazon get their daily meals?
What is farming? Contary to what most people believe the method of hunting and gathering is used as a secondary food source. Some forest dwelling people also depend on the jungle for things such as tools, shelter and medicines.
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The high rates of economic growth are associated with rapid expansion of…
What is the agriculture? After WWII, the Amazon economy had increased by agriculture as they produced and exported crops, wheat, rice and corns all over the world. Now, the agriculture in Amazon accounts for about 3.8% of GDP, 19% of GDP when including agribusiness.
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The land in the Amazon is good for this type of economy...
What is an export and/or agricultural based economy?
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This makes up about 1/3 of the Earth's remaining forest...
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
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Some positives of deforestation would be...
What is the development and improvement of infrastucture, logging, and agriculture? The need for the presence of a workforce
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A daily concern of tribes living in the Amazon is...
What is over- crowding and competition for sufficent hunting grounds? Both of these issues result in the death of many tribal people. Some mothers kill their new born infant girls after birth so that they can control the population of their tribe and most disputes over land usually end in the death of tribal warriors.
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The economy has a huge overlap with…
What is tourism? Tourism represents one of the most dynamic economic sectors of Amazon. The government is leading the project's efforts in identifying tourism opportunities to promote economic growth and increase incomes of local and indigenous communities and producer groups.
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Some vauble natural resources found in the Amazon would be...
What is gold, wood for fuel, plants with medicinal purposes and many other natural resources?
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The Amazon Rainforest contains this river which spans over 4007 miles from its origin in the Andes to the Atlantic, making it the second longest river on earth.
What is the Amazon River?
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