SS6G2 & G3 Review (1)

What is the largest enviromental concern for Mexico City?

• Smog / Air Pollution
• Extraction of Natural Resources
• Deforestation
• Over-production of Oil (spills/ leaks)

Which of the following is the result of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest?

• Scaricity of Natural Resources (Deforestation)
• Over-production of Oil which often causes spills and leaks creating pollution
• Smog
• Over-population

Venezuela's GDP is centered around this industry so much that the government has even focused efforts to hide the results of accidents and spills from its citizens. 

• Deforestation
• Overproduction of Oil
• Smog/ Air Pollution
• Cattle Ranching

How does the physical geography of Mexico make their smog situation worse?

• The Dense Urban Population 
• The Sierra Madre Mountains shielding the windflow from the surrounding oceans
• The Danube River filling with the pollution from factories
• The citizens of Mexico City having higher medical costs due to breathing bad air

Mexico City is...

• In the lowlands valley of the mountains
• at a high elevation atop an extinct volcano
• on the coast of Mexico
• At such an elevation it is actually above the Sierra Madre Mountains.

All of the following are causes for Mexico's air pollution problems, EXCEPT...

• Sunlight and closeness to the equator
• Thousands of factories in the city
• Millions of vehicles in the city
• Over population / high population density

All of the following are actual solutions happening to help Mexico City's smog, EXCEPT...

• yearly emissions testing on all vehicles
• public transportation offered
• require businesses & schools to close 1 day a week
• laws stating each car must not be on the road 1 day a week

All of the following are causes of the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest, EXCEPT...

• Requiring Yearly Emissions Testing
• Agriculture Industry
• Logging industruy
• High Citizen Demand for Beef 

All of the following fall into the agriculture family, EXCEPT...

• Growing Cash Crops to be exported
• Growing crops to support your family (subsistance farming)
• Mining
• Cattle Ranching

All of the following are results or effects of Brazil's deforestation, EXCEPT...

• human desire for money and higher GDP through industries using the forest land and its resources
• Desertification (becoming like a desert wasteland)
• Destruction of potential cures for world diseases
• Loss of animal habitats