Social Studies Ch 22
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- Paramaribo
- Suriname
- selva
- thick tropical rainforests
- republic
- people elect a president and other leaders
- caudillo
- military rulers
- Buenos Aires
- Argentina
- Georgetown
- Guyana
- Caracas
- Venezuela
- hydroelectric power
- electricity generated by flowing water
- Brasilia
- Brazil
- basin
- a low area surrounded by higher land
- favela
- slum areas
- pampas
- vast treeless plains
- deforestation
- the cutting down or destroying of large areas of forest
- Montevido
- Uruguay
- gaucho
- cowhands
- Who has the highest literacy rate?
- Montevido, Uruguay
- Cayenne
- French Guiana
- altitude
- hight above sea level
- Asuncion
- Paraguay
- When did Guyana get its independence and from who?
- 1966 Britain
- estancia
- ranches
- escarpment
- a steep clif between higher and lower land
- llanos
- grassy plains
- When did Suriname get its independence and from who?
- 1975 The Dutch