Natural Regions
What is "biodiversity"?
It is the variety of different plants and animals living in a place.
What is a "natural resource"?
Something from nature that humans use.
Natural region with a dry season and a rainy season. Animals like elephants, giraffes and lions live here.
The savannah
What are "economic activities"?
The work or actions people do to make money and produce goods or services.
Colima
Durango
Jalisco
Colima
Durango
Guadalajara
Plants there are cone shaped. Some animals hibernate during the winter.
Temperate Rain Forest
Type of resources that we can never run out of.
Inexhaustible resources
Name three countries that have tropical rainforest in their territory.
Brazil, Colombia, Perú, Venezuela, Indonesia, Congo
Aagriculture and fishing take resources directly from nature. What type of activity are they?
Primary activities
Morelos
Quintana Roo
Estado de México
Cuernavaca
Chetumal
Toluca
This region has many tall trees, it rains a lot, and you can find jaguars and toucans there. Plants there are really tall and abundant.
Tropical rainforest
What is the difference between a renewable and a non-renewable resource?
Renewable resources can grow back or be replaced quickly (like trees), but non-renewable resources take millions of years to form and can run out.
Name three countries that have tundra in their territory.
USA, Canada and Russia
A doctor, a teacher, and a store clerk give us a service instead of making a product. What type of activity is this?
Tertiary activities
Baja California
Nayarit
Tamaulipas
Mexicali
Tepic
Ciudad Victoria
Name three natural regions you can find in Mexico.
Desert, grassland (pastizal), tropical rainforest, dry forest, wet forest, marine region.
Name three examples of non renewable resources.
Oil, natural gas, diamonds, coal.
México, USA, Australia, Egypt, Morocco
What do people do in "secondary activities"?
hey take raw materials from nature and transform them into new products in factories or workshops.
Hidalgo
Sonora
Baja California Sur
Pachuca
Hermosillo
La Paz
Why do different regions have different animals? For example, why don't we see polar bears in Mexico's deserts?
Because animals are adapted to their habitat, they depend on the specific climate, plants, and water of their region to survive.
If trees are a renewable resource, why can they run out if we cut down too many of them?
Because if we cut them down faster than they can grow back, the forest cannot recover in time.
How have animals adapted their bodies to live in the tundra?
They have a thick layer of fur and fat to protect themselves from the extreme temperatures.
Give one example of a primary, one of a secondary, and one of a tertiary activity in Mexico.
Primary: Mining
Secondary: Making cars
Tertiary: Hotels in Cancun).
Yucatán
Coahuila
Tabasco
Mérida
Saltillo
Villahermosa