Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Question #4-Latin American Economies, (Green is Gena) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - sugarcane
      - wheat
      - coffee
      - asparagus
      - Mining
        
        Gov. policies on mine ownership (1990s
        
        Upward trend in world prices for silver, gold, and others. (since late 1990s)
        
        silver
        
        zinc
        
        tin
        
        copper
      - Land/sky
        
        inconsistant rain fall
        
        rugged land
  - - - Soybean Production
        
        Soybean used less fertilizer and global demand was higher
      - Dry zone
        
        Hard to farm a variety of foods
- - - - tourism is Costa Rica's greatest source of income
        
        Industry Provides jobs to more than 50% of working population
        
        too many tourists visting a single location can interfere with the habitat they are visitng
        
        The features if the rain forest that attract visitors are the very same features that are threatened by excessive tourism. If a species loses its habitat or the habitat is altered in any way, that species may face extinction.
        
        Commercial farmland, grazing cattle to supply the beef industry and firewood for small farms are all causes of deforestation and so is mining.
        
        I
        
        Many people, specifically Nicaraguans, have migrated to Costa Rica for better job oppurtunites such as jobs in tourism, coffee production, and banana production.