Geography Final Exam End of Chapter 12 Q/A

The Atacama Desert (in Chile) is the driest place on the planet because:

a and b (a: it is in the rain shadow of the Andes mountains. b: of the impact of the cold Humboldt current.)

Cuba is known for which of the following development achievements:

All of the above

The Spanish and Portuguese essentially invented a new form of colonialism in Latin America. While there were colonial empires in antiquity (such as Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans), the nascent European colonialism developed in Latin America was different because:

All of the above

The Greater Antilles are found in which subregion of Latin America:

Caribbean

All of the following crops were originally domesticated in Latin America except:

Coffee

As the tropical rainforest is the most productive biome in the world, its soils have huge agricultural potential.

False

Latin America remains one of the least urban of the major world regions.

False

The rise of the indigenous peoples' movement in Bolivia was marked by a number of important milestones. These include all of the following except:

Indigenous people were granted universal suffrage for the first time in Bolivia during the administration of Evo Morales in 2008.

All of the following are examples of how gender roles are changing in Latin America except:

Many of Latin America's export-oriented industries, such as maquiladora assembly plants in northern Mexico along the U.S. border, or the cut flower industry in Ecuador, are largely staffed by women. Not only are these jobs in the export sector being made available to women, but the labor conditions and compensation are some of the best in the world.

The main factor that allowed the Iberians (Spanish and Portuguese) to conquer Latin America in about 40 years' time was:

Old World diseases and subsequent population decline

Geographer Judith Carney has been critical of the dominant conceptions of the Columbian Exchange (CE). All of the following are elements of her critique except:

The evidence suggesting that Old World seeds and crops flourished in the New World is weak.

All of the following are critiques of tourism as a means of development in the Caribbean except:

Tourism creates an employment-intensive industry that creates lots of jobs.

Race is more of a social construction than a category backed up by real biological differences. From a genetic standpoint, there is often as much difference between individuals within a particular racial category (say, black or white) as there is between individuals in different categories.

True

The national parks in Costa Rica have sometimes been referred to as "diamonds in the sea of devastation" because:

many of Costa Rica's beautiful national parks are surrounded by intensive land use for agriculture, forestry and other uses

All of the following except ______ are past and present field arrangements found in Latin America.

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