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Amazon Rainforest
Vocab_MSP7_C.S.13
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| environmentalists | a person who works to protect the natural world from pollution and other threats |
| indigenous peoples | natives of an area who have been conquered or dominated by others who came later |
| land use conflict | disagreement over how to use a particular area of land |
| loggers | someone whose job is to cut down trees for wood |
| native | of or relating to a group of people who were living in an area |
| tropical rain forest | a broadleaf evergreen forest found in wet and hot regions near the equator |
| rubber tapper | The process of which latex is collected from a tree |
| conservationist | someone who works to protect animals, plants, and natural resources or to prevent the loss or waste of natural resources |
| biodiversity | the variety of life found in a place on Earth or, often, the total variety of life on Earth. |
| deforestation | the clearing or thinning of forests by humans |
| Cattle ranchers | someone who owns or manages a large farm, especially one used for raising cattle, horses, or sheep |
| canopy | the uppermost spreading layer of a forest |
| carbon-oxygen cycle | carbon-oxygen cycle: the process by which carbon and oxygen cycle among plants, people and animals, and the environment |
| Dense | marked by closeness or crowding together of parts <a dense forest > |
| fauna | animals or animal life especially of a region, period, or environment |
| flora | plants or plant life especially of a region, period, or environment |
| lower story | the middle layer of a forest, consisting of shrubs and trees |
| lungs of the earth | The trees and other plants that grow in rainforests |
| sustainable development | using resources in ways that meet the needs of people today without hurting the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This means finding ways to use land for farming or ranching |
| vast | very great in extent, size, amount, degree, or intensity |
| broadleaf evergreen forest | a vegetation zone of mainly tall trees that remain green all year; also refers to the type of vegetation in this zone |
| climate | the pattern of weather over a long period |
| ecosystem | a community of all the living things in an area and the environment in which they live |
| forest floor | the bottom layer, or ground, of a forest |
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