The country where each of these six interest groups live.
What is Brazil?
100
Characteristic of cities/ cities
What is urban?
100
Learning Portuguese and working with law makers
What are Natives doing to fight for their land?
100
Forest floor, lower story, and the canopy
What are the 3 major layers of the rainforest
200
An area of land which is lower than surrounding land; a dip in the land.
What is a basin?
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 in rural Amazon 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
The percent of oxygen produced by the Amazon Rainforest
What is 20%?
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 to use the trees in a sustainable manner.
Who are the rubber tappers?
300
3,900 miles long
How long is the Amazon River?
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 Earth's living species found in the Amazon
What is 50%
400
The process by which carbon and oxygen are produced and used by plants, people, and animals.
What is the carbon-oxygen cycle?
400
The number one reason for deforestation
What is cattle ranching?
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
1960
What year did the government open up the Amazon Rainforest to development?
500
Clear-cutting is removing all the trees in one area and then moving on to another area. Strip logging is cutting narrow strips of trees in one area and then, allowing time for the trees to grow back.
What is the difference between clear-cutting and strip logging?
500
This group would defend their claim to the rainforest by saying they arrived in the Amazon first, over 12,000 years ago
Who are Native Amazonians?
500
Using resources in a way that meet our needs without hurting the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
What is sustainability?
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.