Margaret Mead
Vocabulary
The Amazon Rain Forest
Amazon Rain Forest Facts
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

Amazon rain forest has the most species in the world, it has more than ____ reptiles species. 

what is 300

200

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

Custom

300

Mead said she spent most of her life studying the lives of other people so that Americans might_____.

better understand themselves

300

_______ study the laws and government of a culture. 

Political Scientists. 

300

The Amazon is the largest ______ rainforest in the world. 

Tropical

300

The Amazon rain Forest it called the "lungs of our planet" because of the ______ it produces.

what is oxygen

300

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

Culture Contact

400

Mead spent her life living with and studying the cultures in ______, ________ and _______.

what is New Guinea, Samoa and Bali

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

The rain forest gets its name for the river that runs through it, the Amazon which is 4,080 miles long. The river empties 28 billion gallons of water every _____ into the ocean. 

what is minute

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 said one of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder ___________"

where you are when you don't come home at night.

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

The Amazon rain forest is in 9 countries. This country has 60 % of the forest in it. 

what is Brazil

500

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

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