Geography
This is vocabulary and notes for my geography quiz on my Tuesday.
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- Encouragement settlement and development in the interior
- Cities are overcrowded so they government moved the capitol to Brasilia.
- Escarpment
- A steep cliff that separates two level of areas of differing elevations.
- Sertao
- An interior plateau in Brazil with poor soil and uncertain rain.
- Gasohol
- A fuel mixture of gasoline and ethanol.
- Port Cities were used and are still used for Trading goods
- A Sertao is an interior plateau , the poorest region, drought = poverty, manurished
- Build roads and land grants.
- Gasohol is an alcohol based fuel with gasoline and ethanol made out of sugarcanes.
- Poverty
- Live in urban areas of favelas
- Government Policies:
- Boost the growth of Industries. Examples: build steel mills and oil refinery
- Plantation
- A large estate farmed by many workers.
- Deforestation:
- permanant removal of woodlands and increased povery and urban areas for farming, development, and logging.
- Southeast is the smallest region (10.9%), economic heartland, climate and fertile soil, and 40% of population
- Farming is used for cash crops, coffee is a major export, cotton rice cacao and sugarcanes are also major exports.
- There religion is Roman Catholic
- Brazil is the largest country in South America
- Amazon Basin is the Home of the Amazon River and rainforest
- It is the largest region
- Lack of Jobs due to economic challenges
- Because of overcrowding in the cities. They are uneducated/and untrained.
- Ecotourism which brings awareness about the animals in the Rain forest.
- Poverty in Urban areas for people who are looking for jobs, overcrowded, and end up moving to favelas.
- Inhospitable Land
- Due to drought.
- Build hydro electric dams and can provide power to industries
- Establish banks and loan money and maufacturing increased.
- Deforestation
- The process of stripping the land of it's trees.
- Three famous cities are Sao Paulo and Rio de Janerio
- Brazilian highlands: Brasilia is the capitol, the former capitol was Rio de Janerio it changed in 1956, Cities along the coast were over populated, developed in the interior
- Ecotourism
- Tourism that encourages enviromental awareness and has little effect on the ecosystem.
- Chile and Ecuador are the only countries that don't border Brazil
- Landforms are Plateaus and Plains
- Northeast is where the Firs European settlers settled in the 1500's
- Made money by using slaves for the sugar plantations.
- Brasilia is the capitol of Brazil
- In Brazil they speak Portugese
- Favela
- A slum community in a Brazilian city.