Margaret Mead
Vocabulary
The Amazon Rain Forest
Amazon Rain Forest Animals
Studying the Earth
100

Margaret Mead was _____ of other children who were able to live in one place as she frequently had to move around.

Jealous

100

_____ study human behavior. They are interested in how people organize themselves and relate to one another. 

Sociologists

100

About ______ different indigenous tribes call the Amazon Rainforest home. 

200

100

The Anaconda is the ______ snake in the world, moving slow on land and fast within the water. 

Largest

100

A ____ is a group of people with the same way of doing things (customs). 

Culture

200

Mead was the first anthropologist to utilize a camera; she went on to take more than ______ pictures. 

30,000

200

_____ study the development of social customs and beliefs of humans.

Anthropologists

200

The ______ are one of the largest indigenous groups. 

Yanomami

200

Sloths are known as ____, as they exclusively eat leaves apart of the Amazon's upper foliage. 

Folivores

200

Shaking hands with someone, upon meeting them, is an example of an American ______. 

Custom

300

Mead went on to become a curator of a museum, in addition to which, she also became a lecturer at ______. 

Colombia University

300

_______ study the laws and government of a culture. 

Political Scientists. 

300

The Amazon is the largest ______ rainforest in the world. 

Tropical

300

There are _____ species of Caiman throughout the world, who live predominantly within the wet ecosystem of the Amazon

Six

300

When two cultures meet and exchange ideas, which as Americans adopting the German Christmas tree, it is called _______. 

Culture Contact

400

Mead was inspired to become an anthropologist after taking a college course with _______, known as one of the founders of modern anthropology. 

Franz Boas

400

_______ study human prehistory and history. They study tools that were made and used by humans. 

Archaeologists.

400

The two other predominant indigenous groups within the Amazon are the Matis Indians (Jaguar People) and the ______. 

Huaorani

400

Tarantulas are large spiders which can grow as large as ______. 

Dinner Plates

400

The destruction of the Amazon Rainforest causes a ripple effect which affects other parts of the world. This 'ripple' effect is known as _______. 

Global Interdependence

500

Mead wrote her first book based upon her observations of people in _____ in the 1960s.

Oceania or Samoa

500

_____ study the written records of different cultures over time. 

Historians
500

__________ is having a very negative effect on the indigenous cultures of the Amazon Rainforest. 

Deforestation

500

River Dolphins have a unique adaptations for living in rivers: they have small dorsal fins and they are able to _____ their necks/head. 

Rotate

500

A man named ________ came up with a way of recording time that is still used today, which includes B.C and A.D.

Dionysuis Exigous