Chapter 12 Brazil
About how many Indians live in the Amazon Basin today, compared with the two million to five million living there when the Portugese arrived?
200,000
When farmers cleared rain forests to create farms, they discovered that
the soil was thin and not very fertile
Which area of Brazil is its economic heartland?
the southeast
What is an escarpment?
a sharp cliff between different levels of land
How do plantations help boost Brazil's industrial growth?
by growing sugar cane for gasohol
Brasilia was built in the Brazilian highlands to
boost development of Brazil's interior
Opponents of the reservation system in the Amazon Basin argue that the system
causes Indians to lose their culture
Which of these events in Brazil came last?
coastal cities become crowded industrial centers
The strongest cultural influence of northeastern Brazil are from
descendants of enslaved Africans
In addition to threatening animal and plant life, deforestation in the Amazon also hurts
farmers
The founding of Brasilia represented progress because
in order to build the city, roads to the interior had to be constructed
What has caused the percentage of Brazilian agricultural workers to drop?
industrial development
What has caused the percentage of Brazilian workers in agriculture to drop?
industrial growth
Brazil's sertao is a plateau area with
poor soil
To encourage people to move to the interior, Brazil built
roads
What was the main crop of Portugese plantations in Brazil's northeast?
sugar
One major step in Brazil's economic development was
the creation of gasohol
What might lead to the elimination of the favelas?
the creation of more jobs
A home in a favela would probably be made of
tin and mud
Would a failure of the coffee crop hurt the Brazillian economy? Why or why not?
yes- exports revenues would fall dramatically
