GPY 235 - Ch. 5
The disamenity sector of the Latin American city model includes:
slum areas known as barrios or favelas
Chile's copper deposits are located closest to which of the following areas:
the Atacama Desert
In 1982 Argentina fought a war with Britain over:
the Falkland Islands
Rubber production has had the greatest impact on which Brazilian subregion?
the North
Colombia's coffee growing areas are most often associated with the:
tierra templada climate zone
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 formerly a British colony before independence in 1966
The best example of an elongated state in South America, and probably the world, is:
Chile
Which of the following countries does not contain a portion of the Amazon Basin?
Chile
The dominant economic activity in Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo Lowland is:
Coffee Farming
Which of the following countries does not have a common border with Bolivia?
Colombia
Which of the following countries is not a member of the Mercosur trading bloc?
Colombia
The initial stage in the evolution of an insurgent state, according to McColl, is the stage of:
Contention
The control center of the Incan Empire was:
Cuzco
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
Which of the following countries is landlocked?
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:
Quechua
Which of the following cities is not the largest urban center in its country?
Rio de Janeiro
The Brazilian subregion with the greatest diversity in its European population is the:
South
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
The most populous Brazilian State is:
São Paulo
Which of the following is false?
The Spanish invested significantly in their South American colonies.
Venezuela and Colombia as compared with the Guianas have:
been more successful in replacing the plantation economy
Fazendas are:
coffee plantations
In the Latin American city model, the elite residential sector contains the:
commercial/industrial spine
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
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 dry inland back country in Brazil's Northeast is known as the:
sertão
The leading agricultural activity of the Pampa region is the production of:
Cattle
The richest 20% of the South American population control _____ of the realm's wealth.
70%
Almost ____ percent of South Americans live in urban areas.
80
Which of the following regions is not located in Argentina?
Altiplano
The desert in the north of Chile is the:
Atacama
Brazil's Polonoroeste Plan has called for settlement near the border with:
Boliva
The capital of Brazil is:
Brasilia
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 fastest growing in the developing world.
Argentina's dominant city is:
Buenos Aires
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
Bolivia is not disadvantaged by being landlocked because it has excellent river connections to both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
False
Brasília 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
Ecuador is the poorest country in South America.
False
Guayaquil is the capital of Ecuador.
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 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 component 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
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 area.
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
As in the Netherlands, Bolivia's capital city functions are divided between two administrative headquarters.
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 São Paulo area.
True
Brazil's rate of population increase has slowed considerably over the past 25 years.
True
Guyana and Suriname have substantial South Asian Indian population sectors.
True
On the Peru-Bolivia boundary lies Lake Titicaca, the Earth's highest large lake.
True
Paraguay is the most Amerindianized country 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 sertão 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
Which of the following countries has the most compact territorial shape?
Uruguay
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
