Vocabulary
The movement of large numbers of people to cities.
Urbanization
What are the major causes for rural decline?
Poverty and unemployment
Describe the relative location of the Amazon Rainforest.
North/central South America, mostly in Brazil.
Describe the relative location of the Andes Mountains.
Western coast of South America.
Deforestation
The removal of trees from massive contiguous areas.
Deforestation
What is a major effect of rural decline?
Increased urbanization
What is the main cause of the land use conflict in the rainforest?
Differences among many different groups over how best to use the rainforest.
What is the climate of the Tierra Caliente?
Tierra Helada ("Frost Land")
Trading of goods between lowland and highland areas.
Vertical trade
What is the most important pull factor cities have?
Economic opportunities
What group contributes the most to deforestation?
Logging companies
How do people in the Tierra Caliente adapt?
Wear light clothing and live in bamboo or thatch houses to allow breeze to circulate.
A farming method that makes it possible to raise crops on steep hillsides by cutting step-like flat ledges into the mountain slopes.
Terracing/Terrace farming
As Mexico City has grown as a result of urbanization, what else have they seen an increase in?
Crime rates, air pollution, poor slum neighborhoods, etc.
How can settlers help promote sustainability?
Planting crops that can grow under the rainforest canopy.
Which elevation zone is the least populated?
Tierra Caliente
It impacts the climate and vegetation of that area.
The unequal distribution of wealth and resources in a specific geographic area.
Spatial Inequality
What opportunities do cities offer?
Higher standard of living, employment, education, medical care etc.
Why is the Amazon Rainforest referred to as "the lungs of the Earth"?
Because of the role it plays in the Carbon-Oxygen cycle.
Tierra Fria
Describe the Carbon-Oxygen cycle in the Amazon Rainforest.