World Geography Chapter 9-11 South America
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil's second largest city
Name the major crops in Caribbean South America.
rice, coffee, bananas, & sugarcane
soil exhaustion
soil is infertile because it has lost nutrients needed by plants
São Paolo
fourth largest city in the world
How much of the world's river water is in the Amazon?
20%
Altiplano
A broad, high plateau
cordillera
A mountain system made up of roughly parallel ranges
Strait
A narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water
What is an estuary?
A partly enclosed body of water where salt water and freshwater mix.
Llanos
A region of plains between the Andes & the Guiana Highlands. Mostly grassland with few trees. Very low elevation & not much vegetation.
Atacama Desert
About 600 miles long where rain falls less than 5 times each 100 years - located in Northern Chile
Which area contains the world's largest area of tropical rain forest which also has the world's greatest variety of plant and animal life?
Amazon Basin
What is the world's largest river in volume (contains the most amount of water)?
Amazon River
The Parana River flows into the Atlantic Ocean through what?
An estuary known as the Rio de la Plata.
El Nino
An ocean and weather pattern that affects the Pacific coast
What is the Parana River?
Another large river in this region of South America.
What coast does Venezuela lie on?
Caribbean
What is deforestation?
Clearing of trees for farming
Humid tropical rain forests cover much of southern ____________.
Colombia
What is the highest point in the region of Caribbean South America?
Colombia
What two countries have large oil-rich areas?
Colombia & Venezuela
What is important to the economy of Brazil?
Commercial Farming and agriculture
What is the Patagonia climate like?
Cool Desert
Venezuela's highest elevation is in the ______.
Guiana Highlands
What is the Amazon Basin climate like?
Humid Tropical
Orinoco River
Longest river in the region, flows through Venezuela to the Atlantic Ocean. Flows about 1600 miles & empties into the Atlantic Ocean in eastern Venezuela.
Andes
Mountains on the western side of Colombia
What is the Atlantic South America 's main landforms?
Plains and Plateaus.
Guiana Highlands
Series of plateaus stretching from Venezuela to Suriname
How does this large volume of fresh water affect the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil?
The large amount of freshwater lowers the salt content of the Atlantic for more than 100 miles from the shore.
What is the affect of deforestation?
Soil exhaustion, loss of soil fertility due to the planting of the same crops year after year
What is the Mato Grosso climate like?
Tropical savanna
Describe the climate in most of Caribbean South America.
Warm year round due to its location near the equator. Coldest temps are found at high elevations in the Andes.
patagonia
a dry region south of the Pampas
megacity
a giant urban area that includes surrounding cities and suburbs
Manaus
a major port and industrial city - located 1000 miles from the mouth of the Amazon
estuary
a partially enclosed body of water where freshwater mixes with saltwater
Pampas
a region of grasslands in central Argentina
brasilia
brazil's capital
deforestation
clearing of trees
favelas
huge slums
What does Colombia's wildlife include?
jacquars, ocelots, & several species of monkeys
Amazon River
longest river in the world; located in Brazil
