The Geographic Setting
Native Amazonians
Rubber Tappers
Loggers
Cattle Ranchers and the Rest
100
A broadleaf evergreen forest found in wet and hot regions near the equator
Tropical rainforest
100
How long have natives lived in the Amazon rainforest?
+ or - 2000 years
12,000
100
What does it mean to "tap" a tree
To collect, the sap from rubber trees
100
Removing or clearing away the trees from a forest.
Deforestation
100
Including today, June 4, and including the last day of school, June 20, how many days of school do we have until the 20th?
17
200
How many layers make up the tropical rainforest?
Three
200
What is the official language of Brazil?
Portuguese
200
What century did rubber tappers come to the Amazon
19th century, 1870's
200
To cut down all of the trees in an area
Clear-cut
200
A person who works to protect the natural world]
Environmentalist
300
The bottom, or ground, layer of a tropical rainforest is called the_______ ________
Forest floor.
300
In what decade did the Brazilian government open the Amazon rainforest for development?
1960's
300
What is an example of what rubber is used for?
..........
300
Name a "hardwood" tree used to make furniture found in the Amazon
Mahogany or rosewood
300
Found in or living in areas that are not close to cities
Rural
400
Rainforests cover only approximately 6 percent of Earth's surface, but they are home to about _____ percent of the world's living species.
50%
400
Natives of an area who have been conquered or dominated by others who came later
Indigenous peoples
400
An area that has been set aside for a specific purpose
Reserves
400
Besides the furniture industry, what other industry in Brazil relies on wood to produce a product?
paper, paper mills
400
Amazonians learned long ago that farming in a rainforest is extremely difficult. The thin soil is surprisingly poor in __________ , which are the substances that make a field fertile.
Nutrients
500
The process by which carbon and oxygen cycle among plants, people and animals, and the environment
The carbon-oxygen cycle
500
What are considered the "lungs of the Earth"?
Rain forests
500
Any action that relates to the making, buying, and selling of goods and services
Economic activity
500
Logging companies build roads deep into the rainforest so that they can transport logs by truck. Who follows these roads to claim territory/land near the roads
Settlers claiming land for farming and or ranching
500
A form of tourism that brings people to unique ecosystems while trying to avoid damage to these special places
Ecotourism