Unit 3 L9 Spatial Inequality
What is the largest city in North America?
What is Mexico City
A type of brick made with clay, mud, and hay/straw
What is adobe?
A warming phenomenon that occurs in the Pacific Ocean that creates extreme weather around the world, also translated from "Little Boy"
What is El Niño?
Variety of plants and animals living in one area
What is biodiversity?
Farming on mountains by creating flat areas of land
What is Terracing?
What is a sizable area of privately owned land
What is an estate?
The original or native peoples who were conquered/dominated by others who came later
Who are Indigenous Peoples?
Known as the calmest part of a Hurricane
What is the "Eye" of a Hurricane?
Debates about Limited Land, Sacred Land, Sustainability, and wealth are concerned with what?
What is Land Use?
Country that holds the largest amount of the Amazon Rainforest, famous for cities like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
What is Brazil?
What is a heavy haze or fog that is filled with Pollutants and dust/debris?
What is smog?
A set of actions performed as part of a ceremony
What is a ritual?
The deadliest part of a hurricane that sweeps inland up to 100 miles of flooding waters
What is storm surge?
Name for when peoples visit unique ecosystems while also attempting to avoid harming the ecosystem
What is ecotourism?
Famous range of Mountains in South America that run along the western edge of the continent
What are the Andes Mountains?
What is Unequal distribution of wealth or resources in a geographic area?
What is Spatial Inequality?
Peoples who created a famous calendar, floating gardens, established in the Yucatan Peninsula
Who are the Mayans?
Who are Loggers, Ranchers, and Settlers?
Sea that hosts the many islands between the United States, Central America, and South America
What is the Caribbean Sea?
Health, Education, and Income are signs used in measuring what?
What is Standard of Living?
Peoples who inspired "Emperors New Groove" and established Cusco right by Machu Picchu
Who are the Inca?
The scale rating hurricanes destructive potential from 1-5, with 5 having winds above 155 mph
What is the Saffir-Simpson scale?
Name the 3 groups that want to have the Amazon Rainforest be sustainable!
What are the Rubber Tappers, Environmental Groups, and Native Amazonians?
Land's height, or the size of land from sea level
What is elevation?