Enviornmental Concerns
Physical Features
Natural Resources
Amazon Rainforest
Vocabulary
100
This city's population affects air pollution, and is considered to be the most polluted city in the world.
What is Mexico City?
100
This physical feature is the second largest river in the world, and covers 30% of South America.
What is the Amazon river?
100
This is one of Mexico's top exports and provides 1/3 of the government's budget.
What is oil?
100
This percent is the percent of the Earth's oxygen that comes from the Amazon Rainforest.
What is 20%?
100
This word means land suitable for growing crops
What is arable?
200
How could you, as a citizen, reduce air pollution?
What is promote public transportation, put restrictions on car use, and/or educate people about the environment?
200
This sea is a popular place for tourism and borders South America and Central America.
What is the Caribbean Sea?
200
90% of money made on exports in Venezuela come from this.
What is oil?
200
This is the country where most of the Amazon Rainforest is located.
What is Brazil?
200
This word means relating to a city or town
What is urban?
300
Which of these countries would more likely have more polluted air? Country A-population 64.1 million Country B-population 23.9 million
What is Country A?
300
Where does the Gulf Stream originate?
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
300
Where does Mexico send most of its exports to?
What is the US?
300
This gas, created by loss of trees, increases global warming.
What is carbon dioxide?
300
This word means relating to the countryside rather than the town
What is rural?
400
What is the problem with Venezuela making money with oil for their main source of income?
What is oil spill chances increasing?
400
This ocean covers 1/3 of the Earth's surface?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
400
This is Cuba's most important export
What is sugar cane?
400
Describe the climate of the Amazon Rainforest.
What is hot, humid, and rainy?
400
This word is used to describe a person of a combined European and American Indian descent
What is Mestizo?
500
What can oil companies do to reduce the chance of oil spills?
What is use double-hull ships?
500
This is a 48 mile ship canal in Panama
What is the Panama Canal?
500
This country is Cuba's largest trading partner
What is Venezuela?
500
This forest in in danger of deforestation.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
500
This word is used to describe a person of combined European and African descent
What is Mulatto?
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