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What is the altitudinal zone?

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Andes Mtn. Range

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What climate is in Latin America?

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Tropical humid climate (rain,vegetation, humidity and hot)

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What are the three altitudinal zones in order from top to bottom?

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  1. Tierra helada
  2. Tierra templada
  3. Tierra fria
  4. Tierra caliente
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Tierra templada produces

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Coffee maize tomatoes

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Tierra fria produces

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Wheat barley

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Tierra helada (top) has

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Potatoes and uses alpaca

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Tierra caliente produces

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Sugar cane and pigs

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What happens as you move up the mountain

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It gets cooler

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Where is water supply struggling

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Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru

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What happens to the snow that melts from the Andes mountains

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It feeds the amazon river basins

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What is biodiversity

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It’s the number if plant and animal species in a given area

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Deforestation can cause what kind of problem

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Climate change and loss of biodiversity

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Why is there a climate change due to deforestation

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Loss of carbon sink and adds co 2 bc trees produce oxygen and we burn trees

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What is Ecotourism

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Make money and keep the land-ppl come to see the natural population

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Charlie is a what

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Capybara

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Rainforest products and bio prospecting are efforts to do what

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To derive pharmaceutical products from the Forrest

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What did the incas do on the mountain?

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Leveled out the land on the top to live and farm -they adapted

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What were the early civilizations?

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Incas and Aztecs

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Manchu pichu is what

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The lost city of the incas is found in 1911

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Who founded the machu pichu

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Hiram Bingham

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Where’s machu pichu located?

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Peru

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Aztecs are the people of how many

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250,000

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What is the chinampa system

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Islands constructed specifically for farming

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What is the pristine myth

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That before Columbus the land hadn’t been touched or altered (pristine)

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When did the Spanish begin colonization

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The 15th century

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What is the demographic collapse

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Societal collapse usually refers to the disappearance of human societies often along with their life support systems.

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What’s the labor-Encomienda system

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which the Spanish crown defined the status of the Indian population in its colonies. An encomienda consisted of a grant by the crown of a specified number of Indians living in a particular area.

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Why did they have slaves?

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Easier cheaper

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How many slaves were there?

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5million brought over during colonial period

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Why did the Spanish and Portuguese revolt

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High taxes and they succeeded

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What were the languages during colonialism

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Portuguese Spanish and French

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What religion was during colonialism

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Catholicism

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Why did people stay poor through the generations and dome ppl remained rich?

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It was passed down generation to generation

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What is substitution import

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For example stop importing shirts to china to raise your sells/ gives business people a chance to compete

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What’s a benefit of substitution import

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Opens more jobs

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Why did the IMF loan Latin America a loan

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To pay off their first loan that they couldn’t pay back because of debt

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What did the IMF do to Latin America in order for them yo give them the loan

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Do everything they told them to do like cut back on things that hurt their population

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Why did they open up markets

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to make money for example Jamaican cows are successful. It’s easier to get milk from Japan ??

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What are maquiladoras

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It was an effort to create jobs, and it created free trade zones (maquiladoras)

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What’s an informal economy?

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Don’t have to pay taxes

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What’s a formal economy

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Pay taxes

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What are the benefits of a formal economy

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Make your own hours and even job

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Remittances are what

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Individual earns in another country and sent back lot of money

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What is the IMF

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International Monetary Fund

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