Vocabulary
Worsening economic conditions in the countryside, including rising unemployment and growing poverty.
What is rural decline?
The process by which carbon and oxygen cycle among plants, people and animals, and the environment.
What is the carbon-oxygen cycle?
What challenges do farmers face in Mexico's countryside?
How do Native Amazonians use the resources of the rainforest?
Which two Latin American countries have the most desert vegetation? Which four countries have the most desert scrub vegetation? Which thematic maps did you use to find your answer?
Peru and Chile are the two countries with the most desert vegetation. Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, and Colombia are the four with the most desert scrub vegetation. I used the vegetation zones map to find my answer.
The unequal distribution of wealth or resources in a geographic area, so that some places richer than others.
What is spatial inequality?
Removing or clearing away the trees from a forest.
What is deforestation?
In what ways is Mexico City still growing?
The suburbs are spreading up the sides of the Valley of Mexico.
What do the rubber tappers want when it comes to the rainforest?
Rubber tappers want Brazil's government to create protected reserves.
Name four Latin American countries where most of the precious metals (gold, silver, copper) are found. What physical feature do these countries have in common that might explain why? Which thematic maps did you use to find your answer?
Most of the precious metals in Latin America are found in Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile. All of these countries have lots of mountains. I used the physical features and economic activity maps to find my answer.
The overall level of comfort and well-being of a group or a country.
What is standard of living?
Using resources in ways that meet the needs of people today without hurting the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
What is sustainable development?
What problems is Mexico City experiencing as a result of its rapid growth?
There is not enough land and housing for its population
Which three Latin American countries have the most land for livestock raising? In which one of these countries do climate and vegetation make the land most suitable for livestock raising? Why? Which thematic maps did you use to find your answer?
Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico have the most land devoted to livestock raising. Brazil might be best for livestock raising because it has both tropical grassland vegetation and tropical wet and dry climate. I used the climate zones, vegetation zones, and economic activity maps to find my answer.
The movement of people from rural to urban areas, resulting in the growth of urban areas.
What is urbanization?
A broadleaf evergreen forest found in wet and hot regions near the equator.
What is a tropical rainforest?
What are the living conditions for Mexico City's recent migrants?
The living conditions resemble slum living because recent migrants like in small shacks made of scrap metal.
How do the settlers use the resources of the rainforest?
The settlers clear land and plant crops.
Over 8 million people live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Buenos Aires is in an area where there is trade and manufacturing, providing lots of jobs. It has a humid subtropical climate, which is not an extreme climate for people to live in. I used the climate zones, population density, and economic activity maps to find my answer.
The variety of plants and animals living in one area.
What is biodiversity?
BONUS QUESTION: In Ferngully, Crysta tells Zak that trees are important, because...
a. They add beauty to the environment
b. They make clouds, rain, and air.
c. They provide animals with homes.
d. None of the above
What is they make clouds, rain, and air?
Who belongs to Mexico City's upper class? What type of lifestyle do they have?
Large landowners and leaders in business and government belong to Mexico City's upper class. They live in castle-like estates.
What do the environmental groups want when it comes to the rainforest?
Environmental groups want to slow development in the rainforest.
BONUS QUESTION: Why does Zak decide to return to the human world in Ferngully?
He wants to stop the humans from destroying the rainforest.