Unit 3 Vocabulary: The Americas

What is deforestation?

• Eating too much vegetables

• Going to a forest and pulling weeds

• Clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale

• Clearing the five trees in my backyard

What is it called when one country takes control of another, establishing a settlement in order to control the area and gain riches?

• Settlement

• Colonization

• Rebellion

Which Caribbean country is shown on the map?

Hint: This country had massive debt after it gained independence from France's colonization

• Jamaica

• Dominican Republic

• Haiti

• Belize

The conservation of the Amazon Rainforest is very important for our climate.

What does the word conservation mean in this sentence?

• To remove

• To save or restore

• To bring down

• To access

The economy was a big factor for the Venezuelan Refugee crisis.

Factor is another word for which of the following?

• answer

• process

• conflict

• reason

People who lived in a land from the earliest times or before the arrival of colonists are called _____________ people.

• Post-apocalypses

• African

• Indigenous

• Settlers

Debt is when you ____ money.

• make

• owe

• spend

• give

The natural home or environment of an animal 

• Forest

• House

• Habitat

• Cage

Having a strong effect on something or someone

• Impact

• Contact

• Contribute

• Objective

A goal or an idea of the future or desired result

• Impact

• Contact

• Contribute

• Objective