Trade
This refers to how much is available in the market
This is the number one cause of deforestation in the Amazon.
What is cattle ranching?
This is the country where the Aztecs were.
What is Mexico?
This is the largest rainforest in the world.
What is the Amazon?
Easter Island belongs to this country.
What is Chile?
This is when workers receive a guaranteed minimum price.
What is fair price?
What is medicinal value?
These two European countries conquered and controlled most of Latin America for 300 years.
What are Spain and Portugal?
This is the man-made canal that connect the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea.
What is the Panama Canal?
This is how fair trade helps the environment.
Harmful chemicals are prohibited and sustainable practices are used
This refers to the desire for goods and services.
What is demand?
This nickname if often given to the Amazon because it is produces so much oxygen and is a climate stabilizer.
What is "Lungs of the Earth"?
This civilization is known for being great mathematicians.
What are the Maya?
This is southern most tip of South America.
What is Cape Horn?
Name three agricultural products that are grown in and exported out of Latin America.
What are bananas, avocados, coffee, cocoa, pineapples, sugar cane, etc.
In Fair Trade, this is when workers invest some of their money back into the community, such as education and health care.
What is community development?
Explain how deforestation affects the soil's fertility in the Amazon.
The soil no longer receives the nutrients from the fallen trees and leaves, and it is no longer anchored down by the roots. So, it loses its fertility and can be washed (eroded) away.
This is the reason for the end of the Aztec and Inca empires?
What are the Spanish?
This is one of the driest places on Earth and is a coastal desert.
What is the Atacama Desert?
This refers to a person who was a part of the Spanish conquest of the Americas in the 1500s
conquistador
In fair trade, this refers to when workers have a voice and are able to speak up and be a part of decision making.
What is empowers the farmer?
Name FIVE ways the Amazon is used.
cattle ranching, subsistence farming, commercial farming. logging, mining, oil, indigenous homes, scientific research
The Maya were located in...
Mexico and Central America
This is the largest wetlands in the world.
What is the Pantanal?