Lesson 16: Hydropower on the Amazon
March 16, 2021
Review:
- Midterm Exam
- Individual Question Scores
- Grade Update

Presentation:
- Geography of South America – Map Quiz
- Natural Resource Extraction in South America
- Historical Theme
- Resource Extraction
- Conquistadors to Chevron
- Damming, Drilling and Mining
- Negative impacts on indigenous communities and natural environment
- Historical Theme
- Economy of Brazil
- In “BRICS”, B=Brazil
- Brazil GDP
- President Jair Bolsonaro (BBC)
- Amazon Rainforest
- Wildfires in 2019 (USA Today)
- Hydropower
- Hydropower Basics (energy.gov)
- Belo Monte Dam
- Vale Mining Mine Collapse (NYTimes)

Assignment:
- Watch Damocracy (start at 9:15, end at 27:30)
- Watch The Mountain that Eats Men (BBC)