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11 Cards in this Set
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Native Amazonians |
came 12,00 years ago continue there traditional way of life don't harm ranforest |
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Rubber Tappers |
came 1870's take sap from rubber trees (tapping) to make rubber prodects don't harm the forest |
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Loggers |
came 1960's harvest trees by clear cutting make wood products ( furnicher lumber paper) harms the forest |
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settlers |
came 1960's cut down trees to make land for farming continue to farm on the land the goverment gave them no more land left in Brazil feed their families |
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cattle ranchers |
came 1960's bringing their cattle to land with deforestation so they can make a living they make good use of the rainforest by rasing food for the world + making money for Brazil helps Brazils dets |
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enviermental groups |
came 1970's study rainforest plant to hopfully fin cures for desises study wildlife + native people they think they should slow down deforestation to protect species so they can study them befor they are gone |
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biodiversity |
animals and plants living in one area |
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carben oxygen cycle |
the prosses of carben + oxygen cycle among plants, people , and animals + envierment |
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deforestation |
removing or clearing away the trees from a forest |
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sustainable development |
finding a way to use resorses without using them up |
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tropical rainforest |
a broudleaf evergreen forest found inwet and hot regions near the equator |
