The country where each of these six interest groups live.
What is Brazil?
100
This group would claim that they are involved in sustainable development.
Who are rubber tappers?
100
This group might say "People in other countries use the valuable resources of their land to provide jobs for people and improve the economic situation of their country. Why can't we do the same?"
Who are loggers.
100
The amount of money loggers contributed to Brazil's economy in 2005.
What is $5 billion?
200
Using resources to meet current human needs without preventing future generations from using those resources to meet their needs.
What is sustainable development?
200
These two groups arrived in the Amazon rainforest in the 1960s
Who are cattle ranchers, settlers, and/or loggers?
200
This group uses cleared land to grow crops for food.
Who are settlers?
200
This group might be told "You are such a small group, your interests shouldn't outweigh the needs of an entire country. Besides, the way you live just doesn't fit with modern times."
Who are Native Amazonians?
200
To prevent deforestation, rubber tappers have asked the government to set aside land for them, which is also called this.
What are reserves?
300
The variety of plants and animals found in an area.
What is biodiversity?
300
This interest group arrived to the Amazon in the 1870s.
Who are the rubber tappers?
300
This group contributes $3 billion dollars a year to the country's economy.
Who are cattle ranchers?
300
This group might say "We're taking land that has already been cleared and making it productive. Besides, we provide a valuable product to hungry people all around the world."
Who are cattle ranchers?
300
The percent of oxygen scientists think the Amazon rainforest creates.
What is 25%?
400
The process by which carbon and oxygen are produced and used by plants, people, and animals.
What is the carbon-oxygen cycle?
400
Environmentalists arrived in the Amazon rainforest during this decade.
What is the 1970s?
400
Two things environmentalists may do in the rainforest.
What are study plants and animals, search for cures for diseases, and/or work with Native Amazonians.
400
This group might hear "Unless you change the way you do things, the valuable resource you take from the rainforest won't be around much longer. Then what will you do?"
Who are loggers?
400
A term other than deforestation that is used to describe chopping down trees in large areas of a forest.
What is clear-cutting?
500
Actions related to making, buying, and selling goods and services.
What is economic activity?
500
This group would defend their claim to the rainforest by saying they arrived in the Amazon first.
Who are Native Amazonians?
500
Ways that Native Amazonians meet their needs.
What are hunting and gathering, fishing, and growing crops?
500
This group might say "Land that has been opened to us in the rainforest finally gives us a chance to provide food for our families. You can't take that away."
Who are settlers?
500
Another term used for native peoples around the world.