| A | B |
|---|
| Amazonia | Amazon basin in Brazil containing the rainforest |
| Biodiversity | many different life forms or species |
| Canopy | layer of a forest where tree brances and leaves from a roof like covering |
| Ecology | study of living things and their environment |
| Environment | conditions that surround a living thing |
| Forest management | control of wooded areas trying to make sure that forest growth is greater than the amount of timber cut down or destroyed |
| Habitat | place where a plan or animal is normally found |
| Indigenous | native to a country or region |
| Natural Resource | something produced in nature that helps support life |
| Plantation | area for growing crops |
| Shaman | medicine man |
| Species | group of plants or animals that are alike in certain ways |
| Sustainable | describe a resource that can be harvested or used without being destroyed or exhausted |
| Tropical rain forest | found mainly near the equator where the climate is wet and warm year round. |
