Monday, November 10, 2014

Main Ideas 1-10 pg 214

1. The Andes Mountains made it so that people had to settle on the outside on the coast. They couldn't settle in the mountains.

2. The two main purposes of the grasslands and the plains was agriculture and livestock grazing.

3. The greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahamas are the three major island groups of the Caribbean.

4. The Caribbean Island that is rich in natural gas are Trinidad and Tobago and attracts developers to the country.

5. The savannas are in Brazil, Columbia, and Argentina.

6. The vertical climate zones in Latin America affect climate because it gets colder the higher up you go so plants are less likely.

7. Dominant vegetation in the Amazon River Basin is tropical grasslands and dry desert shrubs.

8. Main disadvantage of the slash-and-burn method of growing crops is that after a few years the land is drained of nutrients so they move on to another area and start all over.

9. People are pulled to cities because of better education, high-paying jobs, and better medical care.

10. Tourism disadvantages are more resorts being built in previously unchanged areas, government debt from building more resorts, pollution, and a wealth gap between residents and tourists.


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