Ch. 8 History Test

This region covers 40% of South America?

Amazon River Basin

This region includes Patagonia, Altiplano, and the Atacama Desert?

Andes Mountains

What is the longest mountain range in the world?

Andes Mountains

What is the tallest waterfall in the world?

Angel Falls

What is the driest desert in the world?

Atacama Desert

What two countries are landlocked?

Bolivia and Paraguay

What country produces the most beans?

Brazil

What region is parallel to the east coast and covers half of a country?

Brazilian Highlands

What country was the best example of success?

Chile

What has been the most stable nation in South America?

Chile

What country has the best coffee?

Colombia

What country has the most cut flowers?

Equador

What rugged plateau runs parallel to the north coast? Plateau that separates Caribbean coast from Amazon River Basin

Guiana Highlands

It includes parts of Venezuela and Colombia as well as the Llanos subregion?

Orinoco River Basin

What is the most spoken language in South America?

Quecha

junta

a council of military and civilian leaders who drive power, often resulting in civil wars

carnival

a festival that occurs before Lent; — "farewell to meat"

coup d'etat

a sudden overthrow of government by a military leader of government official

Inter tropical convergence zone

area encircling the earth at the equator in which the northeast and southeast trade winds coverage

Lamas

broad grassy plains that cover half of Colombia

leaching

constant rains dissolve nutrients in the soil and carry them away

Catatumbo is also called

lightning capital of the world at Lake Maraibo

Latin culture is an example of what?

multiactive

What has characteristics of both high and low context?

multiactive culture

Pampas

region of South America with vast grasslands and a semiarad climate Argentina's low plains

Pentecostals believe in a what? ( an aid to holy living)

second blessing

Chile had most only natural deposits of what?

sodium nitrate

escarpment

steep face or edge of of a ridge

estuary

the widening mouth of a river as it approaches the ocean