Latin America test 1
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- Defination: Geography
- The study of both the physical and cultural phenomena that characterize the earth's surface.
- Holistic
- The term we use today to the all emcomposing nature of geographic inquiry
- Spatial Perspective
- The geographer integrates and synthesizes diverse physica, social, political, and economic conditions in order to analzye all or part of the earth.
- Fenneman's classic definition of a region
- An area that allows the largest possible number of gneral statements before details and exceptions are taken up.
- What are the three countries that brought Roman culture to Latin America?
- Spain, Portgual, and to a lesser degree France
- What is highly diverse and gragmented area that can be devidd into three units?
- Middle America
- What forms the heart of the nation of Brazil and covers over one third of it's territory?
- The Brazilian Highlands
- What is the Serra Do Mar?
- A mountain range in Brazil that is near Rio De Janeiro
- Why were settlers first attrated to the Brazilian highlands?
- Because it was a mining state that had gold and diamonds.
- The Sao Francisco River and it's tributaries have deep cut valleys, forming a severely eroded backland known as what?
- The Sertao
- What has helped form the agricultural heartland of Brazil?
- The Parana Plateau
- What water falls is almost 4 miles wide, and is on the Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay border?
- The Iguacu Falls These falls have limited the navigational value of the waterways, which have been dammed at numerous sites for the devilopment of hydroelectric power plants and irrigated agriculture.
- What Plateau is covered by desimentary Strata, and is also the 3rd section of the Brazilian Highlands?
- The Mato Grosso Plateau
- What is the highest water falls in the world, and where is it located?
- Angel Falls, andit's in Venezuela
- What plateau is by the "land of fire"
- Patagonian Plateau
- The northernmost Central Lowlnd is the
- Llamos which is in present day Venezuela and Columbia.
- Over 1,100 tributaries drain an area holding a third of the worl'd remaining tropical rain forests. Approximately 20 percent of the freshwater descharge of the entire earth
- The Amazon Plain, and river
- The river is so large that it has an island is in it's mouth
- The amazon river
- HOw far does the Amazon river go inward?
- About 4,000 miles
- What is Llanos de Mojos
- It is the southern limit of the Azon drainage basin is found in norther Bolivia where the Beni and Mamore river dreain a large lowland region
- What is the Chiquitos Plateau
- It is a modernately elevated region of low, undulating sedimentary hills situated virtually at the geographical center of South America.
- The third great interior lowlad is the Gran Chaco
- Like the Llanos, the Chaco is believed to have formed originally as a shallow Atlantic inlet between the Brazilian Highlands to the east and the younger, more tectonically active Andean chains to the west.
- What is subjected to a tremendous seaslonal fluctuation in volume, t consists in its upper course of a maze of twisting, winding channels draining a great inland swamp known as What?
- The Gran Pantanal
- What is the Pampa?
- It is a piedmont alluvial plain on which thick layers of fine-grained, wind-borne soil particles, called loess, have been deposted.
- The pampas have rich topsoil deposits almost 300 meters deep
- The third major structural zone of Latin America is the Western Alpine system.
- What is the ring of fire?
- is a series of geolocically young nd extemely active mountain ranges whose ongoing development is a by product of the collision and subduction of segments of the earth's crust.
- These plates, are shifting laterally in response to the seafloor spreading, which is driven by the circulation of huge conective cells of moten rock, or magma, deep within the earth
- New mountain ranges are likely to orm along the contact zone between the plates as the crustal materials are compressed, folded, and faulted.
- What are the most active areas in south america for earth quakes?
- Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
- When is an earth quake the worse?
- When it hits at night because people are in their beds sleeping.
- Where do the Andes Begin?
- In Tierra del Fuego
- What is the heart of Chile?
- The central Valley.
- What are the Altiplano
- The largest of the great Andean intermontane plateaus.
- Where has most of Bolivia's wealth come from?
- It has come from silver, tin mines situated at very high elevations on the windswept, treeless slopes of the Cordillera Oriental.
- What is Callejon Andino
- The highlands narrow considerably and are soon redicued to two parallel volcanic ranges that are separated only a narrow trough, or intermontane valley.
- The Cordillera de Merida is also known as what?
- The Sierra Nevada.
- What is the Maracaibo Basin known for?
- Being Oil-rich
- What is the Central American Volcanic Axis?
- It parallels the pacificcoastal plains from western Panama northward to Chiapas state in Southern Mexico
- What Platueau itself has a huge tilted block that slopes northward from 2,100 to 2,400 meters along it's southern margin?
- The western and eastern Sierra Madre.
- What is the Mesa del Norte?
- The arid northern reaches of the Plateau, are smaller, north-south trending blick ranges.
- What part of the Plateau is the Mesa Cnetral?
- The southern portion of the central plateau.
- The Mesa Central supports several of Mexico's major cities as well as traditional rural zones characterized by scattered peasant villagesset among abandoned remnants of pre-revolution haciendas.
- The Western Sierra Madre is a range that appreasrs as barren series of low mountains rising some 600 to 900 meters above the high arid plain.
- What is the Yucatan Peninsula
- The northern peninsula is one of the flattest regions in Latin America, and features that appear from a distance to be ow, rounded hills turn out, as often as not, to be ancient overgrown Mayan Pyramids.
- What is the Outer Arc?
- Are the islands of Anguilla, St. Martin. St. Barthelemy, barbuda, Antiua, Marie Galante, and eastern Guadeloupe
- What are the inner Arc islands?
- They are periodic eruptions and earthquakes characteristic of vlcanically active regions.