Geography Chap. 20-21
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- Define guerrilla. In which country do guerillas play a major role
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one who fights as part of an armed band and takes part in sporadic warfare
Found in Colombia - Define slash and burn farming
- forests are cut and burned to clear land for planting
- What product has given Colombia international recognition
- Coffee
- How many independent countries are in the Caribbean South American region
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5
Colombia
Venezula
French Guyana
Suriname
Guyana - In what Caribbean country do females live the longest?
- Colombin
- Name the only South America country whith coastlines on both the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean
- Colombia
- Name the world's tallest waterfall in this region
- Angel Falls
- 90% of what mineral comes from Colombia
- emeralds
- Of the five elevation zones in the Andes, in which one is there little difference between summer and winter temperatures
- Tierra helada (it is permanently snow covered)
- Of what ethnic descent are more than half of Guyana's population?
- South Asian descent
- Venezuela's national pride is expressed in a statue. Describe the statue
- A European man, an African man, and a Native American woman
- What are Colombia's two major land forms?
- Andes Mountains and the Amazon Basin
- What are Guyana's main crops?
- rice and sugar cane
- What are the main crops found on the small family farm in Venezuela
- sugar cane and coffee
- What capital city is approximately 8, 563 feet above sea level
- Bogota, Colombia
- What is much of Colombia's violence connected to?
- illegal drug trade
- What is one of COlombia's newest and most profitable industry?
- flower farming
- What provides Venezuela's chief source of wealth?
- minerals
- What South America country is a former Dutch colony with Africans, mulattos, Chinese, Indoesians, and South Asians?
- Suriname
- What South American count;ry sends three representatives to the national assembly in Paris, France?
- French Guiana
- Where are most of the region's agricultural areas found?
- in Venezuela near the Caribbean shore
- Argentina has one of the world's major agricultural regions. What is it called?
- pampas
- Brazil held the distinction of being the America's first large
- sugar colony
- Guarani is spoken by 95% of the people of this country
- Paraguay
- In the 1970s, a war broke out between Argentina and Great Britain. Over what did the two nations fight?
- possession of the Falkland Islands
- Name a landlocked country in the region. HOw might a landlocked country be at a disadvantage compared to other countries?
- Paraguay..it has no water entrance to import or export goods and must rely on neighboring countries to allow them to cross their land
- Argentina's four environmental regions
- Andes Mountains, Chaco, Pampas, and Patogoma
- Name the Amazon region's largest city
- Manaus
- Nearly 80% of all Brazilians live in which of the four regions of the country?
- Southeast
- Of the countries in the region, which one comes closest to matching the literacy rate of the United States?
- Uruguay
- Some are predicting that the rain forest will disappear within the next __ years?
- 50
- What are Argentine cowboys called?
- gauchos
- What are the two buffer states in South America and why are they called that name?
- Uruguay and Paraguay because they are small countries separating two larger competing countries
- What county has a border with every South American country except CHile and Ecuador?
- Brazil
- What county in the region has a large number of Italianm, German, and Japanese immigrants
- unknown
- What is the nation of Brazil named after and what does it provide?
- a tree called the "paubasil" and it provides a purple red dye
- What two countries in the region are the most properous of the world's developing ocuntries.
- San Paulo and Rio De Janeiro
- Which of Brazil's four regions is Brazil's poorest?
- Northeast