Chapter 21 South America Joysheet
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 French Guiana is: | An overseas department of France |
| Which of these countries has a Native American majority population? | Ecuador |
| Which capital city was relatively small and surrounded by an important and productive farming area until the mid-20th century? | Caracas |
| The Orinoco River flows through the | Llanos |
| Which national leader declared he was leading a "Bolivarian Revolution"? | Hugo Chavez |
| Which of these statements about recent events in Venezuela is false? | Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez took power after a brief coup deposed the democratically elected government in 2000 |
| The Dutch traded _____ to the British for Suriname | New Amsterdam |
| Why were the Spanish unable to develop much of an export agriculture around Bogotá? | Many crops planted by the Spanish could not survive the frosts and night coolness at that elevation |
| Which city is known as the "control center" for Colombia's huge illegal export trade in cocaine and marijuana? | Santa Marta |
| FARC unleashed a large terrorist attack in which Colombian city in 2002? | Villavicencio |
| Colombia's former president Andres Pastrana: | Tolerated FARC autonomy in three southern provinces for three years |
| FARC has been associated with which group, some members of which were arrested in Bogotá after a terrorist attack in Colombia? | The Irish Republican Army |
| The potato was first brought to Europe from: | Ecuador |
| The world's leading banana exporter is: | Ecuador |
| Which two countries had armed conflicts over a border dispute in 1981 and in 1994? | Ecuador and Peru |
| Which of these cities is located on the Altiplano? | Cuzco |
| Which of these statements about Peru is false? | The city of Cuzco was once the capital of the Incan empire, and is now a major trading city thanks to its location at the head of navigation on the Amazon River |
| Lake Titicaca and the city of La Paz are both at what approximate elevation? | 12,000 feet |
| Brazil has the distinction of having the world's: | Largest maldistribution of national wealth |
| Brazil's two former capitals were (in chronological order): | Salvador, Rio de Janeiro |
| Brasília became Brazil's capital city in what year? | 1960 |
| Coastal cities established by Europeans in Brazil prospered initially from exporting _____ to Europe. | Sugarcane |
| Brazil became independent in _____, but did not emancipate its large slave population until _____. | 1822; 1888 |
| Production of _____ has been a major source of Amazonian deforestation in recent years | Soybeans |
| What prevented Brazil's hoped-for "economic takeoff"? | A quadrupling of oil prices after volatility in the Middle East |
| Eighty-five percent of which country's population is estimated to be of "pure" European descent? | Uruguay |
| Which of these countries is the best example of a "neo-Europe"? | Argentina |
| Argentina's core region is: | The humid pampas |
| What was the "disappeared generation"? | Argentines killed by "death squads" run by the ultranationalist and semifascist military rulers of that country |
| The main economic activity of Patagonia is: | Sheep rearing |
| The socialist president of _____, Salvador Allende, was deposed in 1973 by a U.S.-backed coup. | Chile |
| Which country currently has free-trade agreements with the United States, the European Union, and South Korea? | Chile |
| The most urbanized country in South America is: | Uruguay |
| The area of Mediterranean climate is home to _____ percent of _____'s population. | 80; Chile |
| Uruguay: | Generates almost all of its electricity from hydropower |
| Which of these statements about Paraguay is false? | Mennonites replaced Catholics as the dominant religious group among white Paraguayans after a steady stream of immigration in the 1920s and 1930s |
| Since 1944, the Antarctic Peninsula has warmed by _____ degrees Fahrenheit. | 4.5 |
| Which of these statements about Antarctica is false? | There were several important British whaling stations on the Antarctic Peninsula until 1965 |
| The Falkland Islands are a colony of: | Great Britain |
| Angel Falls originates at the top of a tepui. | True |
| FARC and other militant groups in Colombia obtain most of their funding by taxing coca growers. | True |
| The Tropic of Capricorn lies north of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. | False |
| Most Paraguayans live poleward of the Tropic of Capricorn | True |
| The Atacama is the hottest, driest desert on Earth. | False |
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