Latin America Vocabulary

What is the definition of biodiversity?

• The organisms and the physical environment with which they interact

• A resource that can be replenished naturally over time

• The variety of all living things and their relationships

• Energy that comes from sources that will run out or will not be replenished in our lifetime

What is the natural home or environment of a plant, animal, or other organism called?

• Habitat

• Ecosystem

• Natural Resources

• Globalization

What is a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster called?

• Dictator

• Refugee

• Globalization

• Colonialism

What is the definition of an ecosystem?

• A resource that can be replenished naturally over time

• The variety of all living things and their relationships

• The organisms and the physical environment with which they interact

• Energy that comes from sources that will run out or will not be replenished in our lifetime

What is the definition of a dictatorship?

• A government or a social situation where one person makes all the rules and decisions without input from anyone else

• A resource that can be replenished naturally over time

• Control by one power over a dependent area or people

• How trade and technology have made the world into a more connected and interdependent place

What is the term for - How trade and technology have made the world into a more connected and interdependent place?

• Refugee

• Colonialism

• Dictatorship

• Globalization

What is the definition of Colonialism?

• energy that comes from sources that will run out or will not be replenished in our lifetime (or even in many, many lifetimes)

  
  

• control by one power over a dependent area or people

  
  

• a government or a social situation where one person makes all the rules and decisions without input from anyone else

  
  

• the natural home or environment of a plant, animal, or other organism

What is a resource that can be replenished naturally over time called?

• Renewable energy

• Natural resource

• Nonrenewable energy

• Habitat

What is the definition of Nonrenewable energy?

• found in nature and can be used by people

• a resource that can be replenished naturally over time

  
  

• energy that comes from sources that will run out or will not be replenished in our lifetime

• how trade and technology have made the world into a more connected and interdependent place

What is the name for an item that can be found in nature and used by people for profit?

• Natural Resource

• Renewable energy

• Nonrenewable energy

• Biodiversity