This group just wants to be left alone and let them continue their traditional ways.
Who are the Native Amazonians?
100
The is the movement of people from rural areas to urban areas resulting in growth of urban areas
What is urbanization?
100
What does Tierra Caliente mean?
What is hot country?
100
This term refers to the removing of trees from a forest
What is deforestation?
100
The climate gets colder the higher up in elevation you go because of this
What is the air being thinner and not able to get warmed up?
200
This group wants to preserve the rainforest, slow down the development, and find cures for cancers and other conditions.
Who are the environmentalists?
200
These two groups are often times referred to as the rich and poor of Mexico city where the richer people have luxuries while the poorer people have limited or zero extras.
What are the "haves" and "have nots"?
200
What does Tierra Templada mean?
What is cool country?
200
This term refers to finding ways to use the resources of the rainforest without destroying it. (hint: 2 words)
What is sustainable development?
200
Cuba differs from the U.S. because people are not allowed to speak their thoughts while in the U.S. people have the right to free ____________.
What is free speech?
300
This group wants to clear the rainforest and sells their logs to make money which helps pay off Brazil's national debts.
Who are the loggers?
300
Mexico City has experienced this kind of growth in the last 40 years.
What is rapid growth?
300
What does Tierra Helada mean?
What is frost country?
300
This is the amount of the earth's oxygen that scientists believe the Amazon rainforest produces (hint: a percentage or fraction)
What is 1/4 or 25%?
300
This is the name of the leader of Cuba
Who is Raul Castro?
400
This group has made their living by extracting the milky sap (called latex) without harming the trees.
Who is the rubber tappers?
400
This term refers to the unequal distribution of wealth or resources in a geographic area, so some places are richer than others.
What is spatial inequality?
400
What does Tierra Fria mean
What is cold country?
400
Deforestation takes place to help clear land for these 2 major stakeholder groups of the rainforest.
Who are cattle ranchers and loggers?
400
This is the term referred to the argument over the best ways to use the Amazon rainforest.
What is land use conflict?
500
This group needs lots of land to help their interests get plenty of grazing opportunities.
Who are the cattle ranchers?
500
Pollution, poverty, and crime problems have been created because of this in Mexico City.
What is urbanization?
500
This terms refers to the dividing up of land into zones based on elevation
What is altitudinal zone?
500
This cycle has been referred to as the "Lungs of the Earth" because of how much oxygen is produced from carbon dioxide.
What is the carbon-oxygen cycle?
500
This altitudinal zone has a temperature range of 55-65 degrees Fahrenheit and an elevation range of 6,000 to 12,000 feet.