Geo ch 5

Almost ____ percent of South Americans live in urban areas?

80

The desert in the north of Chile is the?

Atacama

Brazil's Polonoroeste Plan has called for settlement near the border with?

Bolivia

The largest country in terms of landmass in South America is?

Brazil

Which South American country was most transformed by the forced in-migration of Africans in bondage?

Brazil

Which of the following statements is false?

Brazil's population is one of the fasted growing in the developing world

Argentina's dominant city is?

Buenos Aires

Which of the following countries does not contain a portion of the Amazon Basin?

Chile

he best example of an elongated state in South America, and probably the world, is?

Chile

About 90% of Chile's population is concentrated in the country's northern region around the city of Atacama?

FALSE

Argentina is the second largest country in South America in both area and population?

FALSE

Brasilia may be called a core area capital?

FALSE

Brazil attained independence from Portugal about 100 years after the rest of South America gained its independence from Spain?

FALSE

Brazil contains the largest Japanese community outside Japan?

FALSE

Brazil is a federal state; it's largest States lie in the east and northeast?

FALSE

Ecuador is the poorest country in South America?

FALSE

Iquitos is Bolivia's "Atlantic port"?

FALSE

Lake Maracaibo in Ecuador is the focus of the oil industry in that country?

FALSE

Lima, the capital of Peru, is located in one of the most populous basins of the Andes?

FALSE

Only Russia is larger in territory than Brazil?

FALSE

Paraguay is South America's only landlocked country?

FALSE

The Itaipu Dam represents the best possible hope for the development of Brazil's Northeast?

FALSE

The gap between rich and poor in South America is narrowing?

FALSE

Unlike the Caribbean and North America, Brazil never had a major influx of Africans. so the black components in the population today is negligible?

FALSE

Uruguay's major farming region lies in the immediate hinterland of the capital, Santiago?

FALSE

In Ecuador, a regional split has occurred between?

Guayaquil and Quito

Which of the following political names is most closely associated with Argentina?

Juan Peron

A moderating influence on west-central Bolivia's climate is?

Lake Titicaca

Which of the following associations is incorrect?

Montevideo and Paraguay

The major river of Venezuela's iron-rich eastern region is the?

Orinoco

Most of Argentina's population is clustered in the?

Pampas

Which landlocked South American country stands to benefit most from the Hidrovia waterway project?

Paraguay

Which of the following countries contains a population whose ethnicity is dominated by Amerindian ancestry?

Paraguay

The "Triple Frontier" is where which of the following three countries come together?

Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil

The language of the Inca state, still spoken in parts of South America, is known as?

Quecha

The language of the Ince state, still spoken in parts of South America, is known as?

Quechua

Which of the following cities is not the largest urban center in its country?

Rio de Janiero

The Brazilian area that is the world's leading producer of orange juice concentrate is?

Sao Paola State

The most populous Brazilian State is?

Sao Paulo

he dry inland back country in Brazil's Northeast is known as the?

Sertao

Which of the following statements is false?

South America's population remains concentrated in its interior, although many peripheral locations are growing rapidly

The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 stipulated that a north-south boundary was to be drawn separating the South American territories of _____?

Spain and Portugal

A growth pole is a location where a set of activities, given a start, will expand and generate widening ripples of development in the surrounding areas?

TRUE

After independence in 1975, many people in Suriname emigrated to the Netherlands?

TRUE

Argentina's Pampa region contains the vast majority of the country's population?

TRUE

Belo Horizonte is a major metallurgical center in Brazil's Southeast?

TRUE

Brazil exports large quantities of coffee, orange juice concentrate and soybeans?

TRUE

Brazil has common borders with every South American country except Chile and Ecuador?

TRUE

Brazil is the South American country that exhibits the widest income gap?

TRUE

Brazil's automobile industry is based in the Sao Paula area?

TRUE

Brazil's rate of population increase slowed considerably over the past 25 years?

TRUE

Guyana and Suriname have substantial South Asian Indian population sectors?

TRUE

Lima, the capital of Andes-dominated Peru, is a city that was not taken over from indigenous peoples, but was founded by the Spanish?

TRUE

On the Peru-Bolivia boundary lies Lake Titicaca, the Earth's highest large lake?

TRUE

Paraguay id the most Amerindianized county in South America?

TRUE

South America's population distribution may be characterized as peripheral?

TRUE

The South is Brazil's most "European" region, where European languages other than Portuguese still remain in use?

TRUE

The Zone of Maturity in the South American city contains the best housing outside the spine?

TRUE

The cerrado is one of the world's most promising areas of agricultural development?

TRUE

The sertao is in Brazil's Northeast?

TRUE

The slums and poverty-stricken neighborhoods of the Latin American city occupy the outer urban ring as well as the least desirable sectors leading away from city center?

TRUE

Rubber production has had the greatest impact on which Brazilian subregion?

The North

Colombia's coffee growing areas are most often associated with?

Tierra template climate zone

The cerrado is...?

a booming zone of soybean production in Brazil's interior subregion

The Peru (Humboldt) Current is?

a cool offshore ocean current conducive to commercial fishing that flows parallel to the Peruvian coastline

A growth pole is?

a location where a set of activities, given a start, will grow, setting off ripples of development in a surrounding area

Venezuela and Colombia as compared with the Guianas have?

been more successful in replacing the planation economy

The dominant economic activity in Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo Lowland is?

coffee farming

Fazendas are?

coffee plantations

In the Latin American city model, the elite residential sector contains the?

commercial/industrial spine

The initial stage in the evolution of an insurgent state, according to McColl, is the stage of?

contention

The birth rate in Brazil over the past decade has?

declined

The slums of South America's large cities are known as?

favelas or barrios

Unlike Peru's coast, Ecuador's coastline consists of?

fertile coastal plains

Bogotá, Colombia's capital city, is located?

in an Andean Basin

Volta Redonda is most closely identified with Brazil's?

iron and steel manufacturing activities

An altiplano is a(n)?

plain high in the Andes

The current pattern of settlement of the Brazilian North?

results in the widespread establishment of low-grade land use

The final stage in the evolution of an insurgent state, according to McColl, is the stage of?

secession

The disamenity sector of the Latin American city model includes?

slum areas known as barrios or favelas

In 1982 Argentina fought a war with Britain over?

the Falkland Islands

The informal sector of the economy includes?

unlicensed sellers of homemade goods

Brazil's Northeast..?

was Brazil's source area: its early plantation economy first developed here

The country of Guyana?

was formally a British colony before independence in 1966