Impact of Geography on Central and South America

Poll

Would you rather...

• eat sweet treats

• or eat salty snacks?

By John Gibbon

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Draw

Highlight or underline the key words of each definition. The first two are completed for you.

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Categorize

Options (8)

agricultural expansion

logging

urban development

mining

climate change

soil erosion

habitat loss

displaced indigenous communities

What are the causes and effects of deforestation?

Causes

Effects

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What would you do?

Share how you might stop deforestation if you lived near or in the Amazon.

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What do you notice? What do you wonder?

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El Niño causes abnormally warm ocean temperatures off the coasts of western Central and South America, leading to heavy rainfall and flooding in coastal regions like Ecuador and Peru, while causing droughts in other areas like northern South America.

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El Niño

During a La Niña event, South America typically experiences cooler-than-average sea surface temperatures along its west coast due to stronger trade winds, which can lead to drier conditions in central and southern parts of the continent and wetter conditions in northern South America.

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La Niña

Categorize

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economic opportunities

access to healthcare

better infrastructure

poor housing

overcrowding

There are benefits and challenges to urbanization. Drag and drop the following choices as either a benefit or a challenge of people moving from smaller rural areas to larger cities.

benefits

challenges

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Draw

Circle it, just a little bit!

If you are a farmer looking to plant crops, which side of the mountain will have the best chance of successfully growing food.

Circle the Windward Side or the Leeward Side.

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See Ya Later Alligator! We talked about earthquakes, deforestation, urbanization, and rain shadow effect and their causes and effects. Choose one and share what you learned in a two sentence summary.