South America
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- patagonia
- Spanish word for "big foot"
- chile
- Leads world in production of sodium nitrate
- South
- marine climate—lots of rain, cold, inhospitable (chile)
- Central valley
- best farming (runoffs from Andes) in chile
- brazil
- Largely self-sufficient for food, Only imports wheat, Big beef eaters
- Flavela
- shanty-towns, brazil
- argentina
- Mostly European- no Indian or African imprints, 90% of the country is Roman Catholic
- quechua
- language of the incans
- Textiles
- colombia's 2nd biggest legal export
- bolivia
- Western hemisphere's largest reserves tin, other large mineral reserves (silver esp.)
- Lake Titicaca
- Highest navigable lake in the world, in bolivia
- Shield
- an outcropping of exposed ancient rock
- colombia
- Coffee is 70% of their export (#2 after Brazil in SA)
- bolivia
- In the 170ish years of existence, they have had 195 coups, but recently been fairly stable
- Altiplano
- high plateaus
- guyana
- A lot of people from African and Asian (Chinese and East Indian) descent
- 90
- % of Brazilians live along a coastal strip b/w the ocean and the escarpment
- chile
- THINK COPPER (#1 producer in the world)
- North
- part of chile w/ Atacama desert, no rivers, gets moisture from winter fog from ocean
- colombia
- country that Gained independence in 1821
- Devil's Island
- almost inaccessible island for prisoners in french guiana
- Argentina
- One of the wealthiest SA countries (when it comes to GDP) but they have an uneven distribution (have very poor too)
- El Dorado
- legendary golden city in colombia
- Galapagos Islands
- has the capital of Quito
- colombia
- country with El dorado
- colombia
- 95% of emeralds in the world
- argentina
- Western hemisphere's highest mountain-Aconcagua
- spanish, portuguese
- ½ of the people in SA speak ______ and ½ speak _____
- Venezuela
- Means "little Venice"
- Arabica
- better kind of coffee in colombia
- bolivia
- country with the highest capital and navigable lake in the world
- Paraguay
- Landlocked, poor, and military dictatorship,has polka
- North Pole
- 90*N
- 90
- % of all SA live within 200 miles of the ocean
- Amazon Basin
- one of the world's "great empty spaces", in brazil
- venezuela
- one of ten top producers in the world, member of OPEC
- Ecuador
- Speak Quechua (language of the Incas), has oil but is almost out
- French Guiana
- Speak French, Only SA country that is still controlled by a European power
- brazil
- country with the largest escarpment
- brazil
- country that makes up ¼ of Latin America's economy
- chile
- Most industrialized of SA pacific coast countries
- brazil
- THINK 55 (5th most populous, and 5th largest physically) in the world
- venezuela
- Socialist/mixed economy, Nationalized oil, taken large estates from wealthy people
- Bauxite
- used to make aluminum
- Suriname
- They speak Dutch (connected to New York City b/c it was Dutch colony)
- uruguay
- 90% of the people trace ancestry to Europe
- guyana
- One of the poorest countries in SA, Capital is Georgetown
- brazil
- Big ship-building country, Automobile and steel (largest in SA), Recently started a space program (4 years ago they had their first successful rocket launch)
- colombia
- Only country with coast on Caribbean and Pacific Oceans
- brazil
- In 2002 IMF loaned them $30 billion before da Silva
- chile
- pinochet took over in coup in 1973 (until 1990)
- Aconcagua
- w. hemisphere's highest mtn, in argentina
- Ecuador, Chile
- two countries that don't share a border w/ Brazil
- Meridians of Longitude
- imaginary lines that run north and south that measure distances east and west of the prime meridian
- brazil
- Occupy ½ of SA and have ½ of population
- Lake Maracaibo
- has oil wells, produces ½ of Venezuela's oil
- Bolivia
- One of two landlocked SA countries, has Highest capital in the world
- venezuela
- May become the western hemisphere's biggest oil and natural gas producer in 21st century
- colombia
- biggest cocaine producer (Brings in twice as much money as coffee)
- chile
- Mother load of minerals-copper, silver, gold, sodium nitrate
- 95
- colombia produces ___% of emeralds in the world
- Colombia
- Most ethnically varied country in all of SA
- Brazilian Shield
- place w/ lots of minerals in brazil (Iron ore, gold, bauxite, gems)
- guyana
- Means "land of waters" (has a lot of swamps)
- Salvador
- cultural center of Brazil
- argentina
- 2nd largest physically, 3rd for population (behind Colombia)
- peru
- Was the former heartland of Incan empire, Cuzco was the capital
- french guiana
- Gained fame for Cayenne peppers and commercial rocket launching
- colombia
- #1 country in bird species
- uruguay
- Long history of peace and prosperity . . . but ruled by military dictatorship
- uruguay
- country w/ Fertile soil for farming and ranching (raise a lot of cattle)
- brazil
- #1 in coffee, iron ore, bananas, largest catholic, largest Portuguese-speaking, largest foreign debt of any developing nation in the world (more than $260 billion)
- venezuela
- One of the most prosperous countries in SA
- Falkland Islands
- peron declared war on them to increase argentinian nationalism
- bolivia
- Has the strongest Indian imprint of all SA
- Polka
- national dance and music of paraguay
- chile
- 2,650 miles long (from New York to San Francisco) but thinner than 250 miles wide
- Patagonia
- cold, windy, arid (leeward side of Andes) in argentina
- La Paz
- highest capital in the world, in bolivia
- chile
- Grapes, apples, and other citrus fruits important
- Machu Picchu
- in the Andes, abandoned Incan city (no one knows why)
- argentina
- Their constitution says that the president has to be a Catholic
- Parallels of Latitude
- imaginary lines that run east and west that measure distances north and south of the equator
- Guyana
- Former colony of Great Britain, The only English speaking country in SA
- Pampas
- grassy plain, economic heartland of argentina
- guyana
- Socialist/mixed economy—government owns most of major industries (bauxite)
- Middle
- 9/10 of people live here, has a Mediterranean climate in chile
- bolivia
- ¾ of its cultivated land is used to grown coca
- shining path
- main commie group in peru
- Orinoco River
- biggest river in venezuela, runs through llanos (savannah area)