Latin America Flashcards
What is the altitudinal zone?
Andes Mtn. Range
What climate is in Latin America?
Tropical humid climate (rain,vegetation, humidity and hot)
What are the three altitudinal zones in order from top to bottom?
- Tierra helada
- Tierra templada
- Tierra fria
- Tierra caliente
Tierra templada produces
Coffee maize tomatoes
Tierra fria produces
Wheat barley
Tierra helada (top) has
Potatoes and uses alpaca
Tierra caliente produces
Sugar cane and pigs
What happens as you move up the mountain
It gets cooler
Where is water supply struggling
Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru
What happens to the snow that melts from the Andes mountains
It feeds the amazon river basins
What is biodiversity
It’s the number if plant and animal species in a given area
Deforestation can cause what kind of problem
Climate change and loss of biodiversity
Why is there a climate change due to deforestation
Loss of carbon sink and adds co 2 bc trees produce oxygen and we burn trees
What is Ecotourism
Make money and keep the land-ppl come to see the natural population
Charlie is a what
Capybara
Rainforest products and bio prospecting are efforts to do what
To derive pharmaceutical products from the Forrest
What did the incas do on the mountain?
Leveled out the land on the top to live and farm -they adapted
What were the early civilizations?
Incas and Aztecs
Manchu pichu is what
The lost city of the incas is found in 1911
Who founded the machu pichu
Hiram Bingham
Where’s machu pichu located?
Peru
Aztecs are the people of how many
250,000
What is the chinampa system
Islands constructed specifically for farming
What is the pristine myth
That before Columbus the land hadn’t been touched or altered (pristine)
