environmental issues of latin america

Brain Jogger

• What types of Environmental Problems (pollution) do you think Latin America encounters? Why do you think so?

Quick Quiz

Mexico City Air Pollution

Most Taxis per person than any other place in the world!!

Hoy No Circula• Cannot drive on certain days

In Spanish In English

Emission Checks

Mexico City 1986 Mexico City 2010

Days that Mexico Cities air was worse than the national average

Short Answer with Shoulder Buddy. Both need to write

down answer.

Amazon Rainforest

Fill in the Blank Writing:

In Venezuela, the economy relies on _______________ profits to keep the country running. Unfortunately, serious environmental damage is caused from _____ _______________ usually in the form of _____ spills. These spill have shut down ____________ _____________ and hurt the ___________ industry by destroying the __________________ of fish. Venezuela is trying to fix things by___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Ticket Out the Door

• Name the three countries that we have discussed today and their environmental issue.