GEOG Chapter 3

The slums and poorest neighborhoods in the "Latin" American city model occupy the outer urban ring as well as the least desirable sectors leading away from city center.

True

The control center of the Incan Empire was ____________. a) Cuzco b) Lima c) Mexico City d) Quito e) Buenos Aires

a) Cuzco

Figure 3-9 shows that Venezuela claims rights to a significant portion of this country: a) Guyana b) Colombia c) Brazil d) Trinidad and Tobago e) Panama

a) Guyana

After independence in 1975, many people in Suriname immigrated to the Netherlands.

true

Guyana and Suriname have substantial South Asian Indian population sectors.

true

South America displays great variety in natural habitats due to its latitudinal extent.

true

South America's population distribution is mostly close to the continents' coast.

true

The Incas were true colonizers who contributed much of their culture to the areas they occupied.

true

According to Figure 3-10, the city of Bogotá is located in a leading area of insurgent activity in Colombia.

False

Iquitos is Bolivia's "Atlantic port."

False

The Spanish territories located closest to centers of viceroyalty power were the first to become independent from Spain during the 1800s. South America gained its independence from Spain.

False

The four emerging powers called the BRICs include all but which of the following? a) India b) Argentina c) China d) Russia e) Brazil

b) Argentina

A growth pole is ___________________. a) an established manufacturing center that dominates a substantial hinterland b) any large city in a national core area c) a location where a set of activities, given a start, will grow, setting off ripples of development in a surrounding area d) a location, now in decline, that served as a focal point for a developing region in the past e) a high-technology field instrument that precisely measures a locality's economic growth

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

About ____ percent of South Americans current lives in urban areas. a) 20 b) 40 c) 50 d) 70 e) 80

e) 80

The major river of Venezuela is the _______________. a) Rio de la Plata b) Paraguay c) Amazon d) Orinoco e) Magdalena

d) Orinoco

Which of the following countries does NOT contain a portion of the Amazon Basin? a) Brazil b) Ecuador c) Peru d) Colombia e) Chile

e) Chile

Lake Maracaibo in Colombia is the focus of the oil industry in that country.

false

In 1982 Argentina fought a war with Britain over _______________. a) Tierra del Fuego b) the Falkland Islands c) the outcome of a controversial soccer match d) land claims in Antarctica e) their common maritime boundary in the mid-Atlantic

b) the Falkland Islands

A moderating influence on the Altiplano's climate is _______________. a) Lake Titicaca b) the Atlantic Ocean c) the Pacific Ocean d) the Peru Current e) winds blowing across the Andes from the Amazon Basin

a) Lake Titicaca

The South American country that contains the northern end of the Andes is ___________. a) Venezuela b) Colombia c) Panama d) Brazil e) Suriname

a) Venezuela

São Paulo's wealth was built on its _______________. a) coffee plantations b) mineral wealth c) sugarcane plantations d) industrial soybean farms e) oil wealth

a) coffee plantations

In the Latin American city model, the elite residential sector contains the _________. a) commercial spine b) disamenity sector c) zone of maturity d) zone of in situ accretion e) zone of peripheral squatter settlements

a) commercial spine

The slums of South America's large cities are known as ____________. a) favelas or barrios b) tierra urbanas c) altiplanos d) llanos e) llamas

a) favelas or barrios

Brazil's highly successful social program called Bolsa Família____________. a) gives families small amounts of cash to keep their children in school b) is a "zero hunger" program c) seeks to reunite families that became separated during rural-urban migration d) encourages low birth rates e) requires participation in elections

a) gives families small amounts of cash to keep their children in school

The country of Guyana _________________. a) was formerly a British colony before independence in 1966 b) is also called Suriname c) contains a population that is three-quarters European d) is the smallest of the four Guianas in population size e) still belongs to France

a) was formerly a British colony before independence in 1966

Brazil's Northeast __________________. a) was where Brazil's early plantation economy first developed b) produces most of the country's coffee crop c) is the site of Brazil's most spectacular recent surge of economic development d) contains the largest number of European settlers in the country e) remains mainly Amerindian country because most of the indigenous peoples have resettled here

a) was where Brazil's early plantation economy first developed

Which South American country was most transformed by the forced in-migration of Africans in bondage? a) Argentina b) Brazil c) Colombia d) Peru e) Ecuador

b) Brazil

Which of the following associations is incorrect? a) Santiago and Chile b) Montevideo and Paraguay c) La Paz and Bolivia d) Quito and Ecuador e) Lima and Peru

b) Montevideo and Paraguay

The Triple Frontier is located at the convergence of which three countries? a) Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina b) Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil c) Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia d) Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil e) Brazil, French Guiana, and Suriname

b) Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil

According to Figure 3-5, which country is a significant producer of coca plants? a) Venezuela b) Peru c) Ecuador d) Brazil e) Guyana

b) Peru

Figure 3-12 shows that Lake Titicaca straddles the border of which two countries? a) Peru and Brazil b) Peru and Bolivia c) Peru and Chile d) Chile and Bolivia e) Bolivia and Brazil

b) Peru and Bolivia

According to Figure 3-13, Buenos Aires is at approximately the same latitude as which city? a) Asunción b) Santiago c) Córdoba d) Bahia Blanca e) Santa Cruz

b) Santiago

The leading agricultural activity of the Pampa region is the production of _____________. a) coffee b) cattle c) sugarcane d) tropical fruits and vegetables e) tobacco

b) cattle

Unlike Peru's coast, Ecuador's coastland consists of ______________. a) desert b) fertile tropical plains c) mountains that reach the sea d) indented bays with many excellent port facilities e) altiplanos covered by equatorial forest

b) fertile tropical plains

An altiplano is a(n) ____________. a) low area with small mountains b) high-elevation basin or valley c) agricultural area in Brazil d) plain in the Amazon Basin e) altitudinal zone lying above tierra firma

b) high-elevation basin or valley

The part of South America where the dominant ethnic group is European is the ____. a) north b) south c) western mountains d) eastern coast e) central plains

b) south

Chile's copper deposits are located closest to which of the following areas: a) Santiago in Middle Chile b) the Atacama Desert c) Tierra del Fuego d) the Amazon Basin e) the border with Brazil

b) the Atacama Desert

The desert in the north of Chile is the _______________. a) Pampa b) Patagonian Plateau c) Atacama d) cerrado e) llanos

c) Atacama

Brazil's Polonoroeste Plan has called for settlement near the border with _____________. a) Venezuela b) Chile c) Bolivia d) Uruguay e) Ecuador

c) Bolivia

The best example of an elongated state in South America, and probably the world, is _________. a) Peru b) Brazil c) Chile d) Bolivia e) Uruguay

c) Chile

In Ecuador, a regional split has occurred between __________________. a) Quito and Lima b) the Guayas Lowland and Amazonia c) Guayaquil and Quito d) Quito and Cuzco e) the halves of the country bisected by the equator

c) Guayaquil and Quito

Figure 3-6 shows that this city has a population between five and ten million people: a) Buenos Aires b) São Paulo c) Lima d) Guayaquil e) Caracas

c) Lima

Most of Argentina's population is clustered in the _______________. a) Chilean border zone b) Patagonian North c) Pampa d) Andean foothills e) Triple Frontier area

c) Pampa

Which of the following countries contains a population whose ethnicity is dominated by indigenous ancestry? a) Argentina b) Brazil c) Paraguay d) Uruguay e) Chile

c) Paraguay

Which of the following countries is landlocked? a) Uruguay b) Ecuador c) Paraguay d) Peru e) Suriname

c) Paraguay

14) Which of the following cities is NOT the largest urban center in its country? a) Buenos Aires b) Santiago c) Rio de Janeiro d) Montevideo e) Bogotá

c) Rio de Janeiro

In 1494 a treaty was signed that stipulated that a north-south boundary was to be drawn separating the South American territories of ____________________. a) Spain and Britain b) France and Britain c) Spain and Portugal d) the Netherlands and France e) the Inca and the Maya

c) Spain and Portugal

Which of the following countries has the most compact territorial shape? a) Chile b) Argentina c) Uruguay d) Panama e) Peru

c) Uruguay

The cerrado is ________________. a) Brazil's coastal industrial zone b) the Triple Frontier's dominant ethnic group c) a booming zone of soybean production in Brazil's Central-West subregion d) the wealthiest sector of the "Latin" American city e) the expanding Amazonian area recently cleared of rainforests

c) a booming zone of soybean production in Brazil's Central-West subregion

Bogotá, Colombia's capital city, is located ______________. a) on the arid Pacific coast b) on the Caribbean Sea at the outlet of the Magdalena River c) in an Andean basin d) at the intersection of three valleys in the eastern savanna zone near the Brazilian border e) in the llanos

c) in an Andean basin

The dominant economic activity in Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo Lowland is ___________. a) large-scale cattle herding b) tourism c) oil production d) coffee farming e) cocaine refining

c) oil production

Argentina's primate city is ______________. a) Montevideo b) Asunción c) La Paz d) Buenos Aires e) Cordoba

d) Buenos Aires

Which of the following countries does not have a common border with Bolivia? a) Argentina b) Chile c) Paraguay d) Colombia e) Brazil

d) Colombia

According to Figure 3-11, which city with over one million people is located on the eastern side of the Andes Mountains? a) Guayaquil b) Lima c) La Paz d) Santa Cruz e) Salta

d) Santa Cruz

Which of the following is INCORRECT? a) The Spanish viceroyalties existed in isolation from one another. b) In the colonial period, Lima was one of the world's wealthiest cities. c) The Andes Mountains contributed to viceroyalty isolation. d) The Spanish invested significantly in their South American colonies. e) The Spanish formed vast haciendas through land alienation.

d) The Spanish invested significantly in their South American colonies.

Venezuela and Colombia as compared with the Guianas have ____________. a) larger territories and smaller populations b) larger populations and smaller territories c) less varied physiographies d) been more successful in replacing the plantation economy e) fewer economic opportunities

d) been more successful in replacing the plantation economy

Rio de Janeiro is the center of Brazil's __________________. a) Federal Capital District b) most populous State c) largest metropolitan region d) cultural life e) largest Afro-Brazilian population cluster

d) cultural life

According to Figure 3-3, African ethnic groups in South America live predominantly in the: a) South b) mountainous northwest c) interior Amazon region d) northern and northeastern coastal areas e) extreme southwestern coastal areas

d) northern and northeastern coastal areas

Which of the following statements is FALSE? a) Brazil is the largest country in South America. b) The Northeast is Brazil's poorest subregion. c) Russia, Canada, China, and the United States are all larger territorially than Brazil. d) Brazil's population is one of the fastest growing in the world. e) Brazil has an ethnically diverse population.

e) Brazil has an ethnically diverse population.

The language of the Inca state, still spoken in parts of South America, is known as __________. a) altiplanoan b) Incanese c) lingua fria d) lingua franca e) Quechua

e) Quechua

Brasília is a classic example of a ___________________. a) megacity b) primate city c) coastal urban complex d) growth pole e) forward capital

e) forward capital

The dry inland back country in Brazil's Northeast is known as the _______________. a) Amazon Basin b) cerrado c) favela d) inner Northwest e) sertão

e) sertão

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

false

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

true

The Zone of Maturity in the "Latin" American city model contains the best housing outside the spine.

true