A grassland area where cattle ranching occurs in Argentina.
What are the pampas?
100
The Amazon rainforest is often called the "lungs of the Earth" because of this cycle.
What is the carbon-oxygen cycle?
100
Called hurricanes or typhoons--in the Caribbean the word came from the Taino.
What is a tropical cyclone?
100
Farming carried out mainly to provide food for farm families.
What is subsistence farming?
100
the movement of people from rural to urban areas.
What is urbanization?
200
The major river that runs through Venezuela.
What is the Orinoco?
200
The Brazilian government encouraged me to farm in the Amazon because I needed to make a living and a home for my family.
What is a settler?
200
A warm ocean current that flows off the west coast of South America every few years. It can cause cause extreme weather.
What is El Nino?
200
Where the Maya lived are mainly living today.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula and Guatemala?
200
Worsening economic conditions in the countryside, including rising unemployment and growing poverty.
What is rural decline?
300
The desert to the west of the Andes.
What is the Atacama Desert?
300
I have been living in the rainforest for about 12,000 years. I use the resources without damaging the forest.
Who are the Native Amazonians?
300
The curving patterns that the Earth's rotation causes the wind currents to move in.
What is the Coriolis effect?
300
Two ways that the traditional Mayan market has adapted to modern life.
What is speaking Spanish, using money, selling goods to tourists, selling plastic items and other modern items.
300
The unequal distribution of wealth or resources in a geographic area.
What is spatial inequality?
400
The term used to describe trade between lowlands and highlands.
What is vertical trade?
400
I was murdered for defending the rubber tappers and the Amazon rainforest.
Who is Chico Mendes?
400
The most destructive feature of of a hurricane.
What is a storm surge?
400
Explain the role of a Mayan Healer.
What is they have great knowledge of natural environment, treat both physical and spiritual causes--Mend the soul as well as body. Can preserve knowledge of the ancient Mayan calendar?
400
Problems that urbanization creates.
What is pollution, smog, poor air quality, unemployment, poverty.
500
The highest zone of the central Andes. Temperatures reach 20-55 degrees F.
What is the Tierra Helada?
500
Two ways that people can use the rainforest more sustainably.
What is ecotourism, buy "good wood," buy Brazil nuts, shade grown coffee, reforestation.
500
This makes it much more difficult for some people to clean up and prepare for natural disasters.
What is spatial inequaltiy?
500
Name two problems that indigenous peoples face.
What is losing language, culture, history, customs and they are often poorer than other people living in the country.
500
If many people coming to cities must live in slums why does urbanization continue and why are the number of megacities growing? name two reasons.
What is hope for a better job, better access to health care and education, rural decline?