Latin America - Impact of Geography and Environmental Issues

Mexico, Cuba, and Brazil are major producers of

• lumber and oil

• sugar cane and coffee

• cattle and automobiles

The largest populations in Brazil are near ____________ on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean where more __________ are available.

• cities; jobs

• cities; farms

• the Amazon Rainforest; ranches

• the Amazon Rainforest; jobs

True or False? Mexico's climate is mostly warm.

• True

• False

Because Cuba has fewer natural resources that most countries, it must _______________more goods than it _____________.

• import; sells

• sell; buys

• export, imports

• import; exports

Timber would most likely be found in the _______________of Brazil.

• interior (rainforest)

• near cities

• anterior (on the coastlines)

• less populated areas

The automobile industry, cattle ranching, and lumber harvesting are all contributors to the problems of _______________________ in Brazil.

• air pollution

• littering

• deforestation

• high populations

The need economic need for ________________ and _________________ are reasons for deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest.

• oil mining; farming

• cattle ranching; gold mining

• farm land; cattle ranching

• fruit cropping; native reserves

Air pollution is the most serious environmental issue facing __________________.

• Mexico

• Cuba

• Brazil

• Canada

Air pollution in Mexico City has led to higher levels of ____________________in citizens there.

• a. learning problems

• b. toxic chemicals

• c.unemployment

Polluted air in Mexico leads to polluted water such as rivers. The effects of this pollution can include ____________ ___________________.

• increase in poisons and new animal and plant life

• increase in plants and animals that can survive there

• decrease in plants that can grow and fish that live there.

• decrease in animals that can live there and in toxic chemicals