Deck 4: The South American Realm

Question 1

Bogotá,Colombia's capital city,is located ______________.

A) on the arid Pacific coast
B) on the Caribbean Sea at the outlet of the Magdalena River
C) in an Andean basin
D) at the intersection of three valleys in the eastern savanna zone near the Brazilian border
E) in the llanos

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The part of South America where the dominant ethnic group is European is the ____.

A) north
B) south
C) western mountains
D) eastern coast
E) central plains

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The dominant economic activity in Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo Lowland is ___________.

A) large-scale cattle herding
B) tourism
C) oil production
D) coffee farming
E) cocaine refining

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following cities is NOT the largest urban center in its country?

A) Buenos Aires
B) Santiago
C) Rio de Janeiro
D) Montevideo
E) Bogotá

Question 5

Which of the following is INCORRECT?

A) The Spanish viceroyalties existed in isolation from one another.
B) In the colonial period, Lima was one of the world's wealthiest cities.
C) The Andes Mountains contributed to viceroyalty isolation.
D) The Spanish invested significantly in their South American colonies.
E) The Spanish formed vast haciendas through land alienation.

Question 6

Figure 3-6 shows that this city has a population between five and ten million people:

A) Buenos Aires
B) São Paulo
C) Lima
D) Guayaquil
E) Caracas

Question 7

Which of the following countries does NOT contain a portion of the Amazon Basin?

A) Brazil
B) Ecuador
C) Peru
D) Colombia
E) Chile

Question 8

The four emerging economies called the BRICs include all but which of the following?

A) India
B) Argentina
C) China
D) Russia
E) Brazil

Question 9

In 1494 a treaty was signed that stipulated that a north-south boundary line was to be drawn separating the South American territories of ____________________.

A) Spain and Britain
B) France and Britain
C) Spain and Portugal
D) the Netherlands and France
E) the Inca and the Maya

Question 10

An altiplano is a(n)____________.

A) low area with small mountains
B) high-elevation basin or valley
C) agricultural area in Brazil
D) plain in the Amazon Basin
E) altitudinal zone lying above the tierra firma

Question 11

The slums of South America's large cities are known as ____________.

A) favelas or barrios
B) tierra urbanas
C) altiplanos
D) llanos
E) llamas

Question 12

According to Figure 3-3,African-origin ethnic groups in South America live predominantly in the:

A) South
B) mountainous northwest
C) interior Amazon region
D) northern and northeastern coastal zone
E) extreme southwestern coastal zone

Question 13

Which of the following countries is NOT a member of the Mercosur/l trading bloc?

A) Guyana
B) Argentina
C) Uruguay
D) Paraguay
E) Brazil

Question 14

About ____ percent of the South Americans population currently lives in urban areas.

A) 20
B) 40
C) 50
D) 70
E) 80

Question 15

In the Latin American City model,the elite residential sector contains the _________.

A) commercial spine
B) disamenity sector
C) zone of maturity
D) zone of in situ accretion
E) zone of peripheral squatter settlements

Question 16

Commercial agriculture in South America is best typified by

A) highland farming
B) subsistence farming
C) plantations
D) agroforestry
E) shifting cultivation

Question 17

The disamenity sector of the Latin American city model includes ___________.

A) peripheral squatter settlements
B) slum areas known as barrios or favelas
C) the central plaza
D) the elite residential areas
E) the CBD

Question 18

According to Figure 3-5,which country is a significant producer of coca plants?

A) Venezuela
B) Peru
C) Ecuador
D) Brazil
E) Guyana

Question 19

The control center of the Incan Empire was ____________.

A) Cuzco
B) Lima
C) Mexico City
D) Quito
E) Buenos Aires

Question 20

Which South American country was most transformed by the forced in-migration of Africans in bondage?

A) Argentina
B) Brazil
C) Colombia
D) Peru
E) Ecuador

Question 21

The country of Guyana _________________.

A) was formerly a British colony before independence in 1966
B) is also called Suriname
C) contains a population that is three-quarters European
D) is the smallest of the four Guianas in population size
E) still belongs to France

Question 22

Figure 3-12 shows that Lake Titicaca straddles the border of which two countries?

A) Peru and Brazil
B) Peru and Bolivia
C) Peru and Chile
D) Chile and Bolivia
E) Bolivia and Brazil

Question 23

In 1982 Argentina fought a war with Britain over _______________.

A) Tierra del Fuego
B) the Falkland Islands
C) the outcome of a controversial soccer match
D) land claims in Antarctica
E) their common maritime boundary in the mid-Atlantic

Question 24

Argentina's primate city is ______________.

A) Montevideo
B) Asunción
C) La Paz
D) Buenos Aires
E) Cordoba

Question 25

Venezuela and Colombia,compared to the Guianas,have ____________.

A) larger territories and smaller populations
B) larger populations and smaller territories
C) less varied physiographies
D) been more successful in replacing the plantation economy
E) fewer economic opportunities

Question 26

Which of the following countries is landlocked?

A) Uruguay
B) Ecuador
C) Paraguay
D) Peru
E) Suriname

Question 27

Which of the following countries does not have a common border with Bolivia?

A) Argentina
B) Chile
C) Paraguay
D) Colombia
E) Brazil

Question 28

The language of the Inca state,still spoken in parts of South America,is known as __________.

A) Altiplanoan
B) Incanese
C) lingua fria
D) lingua franca
E) Quechua

Question 29

Unlike Peru's coastal zones,Ecuador's coastland consists of ______________.

A) desert
B) fertile tropical plains
C) mountains that reach the sea
D) indented bays with many excellent port facilities
E) altiplanos covered by equatorial forest

Question 30

In Ecuador,a regional split has occurred between __________________.

A) Quito and Lima
B) the Guayas Lowland and Amazonia
C) Guayaquil and Quito
D) Quito and Cuzco
E) the halves of the country bisected by the equator

Question 31

Which of the following associations is incorrect?

A) Santiago and Chile
B) Montevideo and Paraguay
C) La Paz and Bolivia
D) Quito and Ecuador
E) Lima and Peru

Question 32

A moderating influence on the Altiplano's climate is _______________.

A) Lake Titicaca
B) the Atlantic Ocean
C) the Pacific Ocean
D) the Peru Current
E) winds blowing across the Andes from the Amazon Basin

Question 33

Which of the following countries contains a population whose ethnicity is dominated by indigenous ancestry?

A) Argentina
B) Brazil
C) Paraguay
D) Uruguay
E) Chile

Question 34

Most of Argentina's population is clustered in the _______________.

A) Chilean border zone
B) Patagonian North
C) the Pampa
D) Andean foothills
E) Triple Frontier area

Question 35

Figure 3-9 shows that Venezuela claims rights to a significant portion of this country:

A) Guyana
B) Colombia
C) Brazil
D) Trinidad and Tobago
E) Panama

Question 36

Which of the following regions is not located in Argentina?

A) Patagonia
B) the Pampa
C) the Cerrado
D) Chaco
E) Entre Rios

Question 37

The leading river of Venezuela is the _______________.

A) Rio de la Plata
B) Paraguay
C) Amazon
D) Orinoco
E) Magdalena

Question 38

The Triple Frontier is located at the convergence of which three countries?

A) Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina
B) Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil
C) Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia
D) Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil
E) Brazil, French Guiana, and Suriname

Question 39

According to Figure 3-11,which city with over one million people is located on the eastern side of the Andes Mountains?

A) Guayaquil
B) Lima
C) La Paz
D) Santa Cruz
E) Salta

Question 40

The South American country that contains the northern end of the Andes is ___________.

A) Venezuela
B) Colombia
C) Panama
D) Brazil
E) Suriname

Question 41

Rio de Janeiro is the center of Brazil's __________________.

A) Federal Capital District
B) most populous State
C) largest metropolitan region
D) cultural life
E) largest Afro-Brazilian population cluster

Question 42

According to Figure 3-13,Buenos Aires is at approximately the same latitude as which city?

A) Asunción
B) Santiago
C) Córdoba
D) Bahia Blanca
E) Santa Cruz

Question 43

The cerrado is ________________.

A) Brazil's coastal industrial zone
B) the Triple Frontier's dominant ethnic group
C) a booming zone of soybean production in Brazil's Central-West subregion
D) the wealthiest sector of the "Latin" American city
E) the expanding Amazonian area recently cleared of rainforests

Question 44

Brazil's Polonoroeste Plan has called for settlement near the border with _____________.

A) Venezuela
B) Chile
C) Bolivia
D) Uruguay
E) Ecuador

Question 45

São Paulo's wealth was built on its _______________.

A) coffee plantations
B) mineral wealth
C) sugarcane plantations
D) industrial soybean farms
E) oilfields

Question 46

The most populous Brazilian State is ____________.

A) Rio de Janeiro
B) São Paulo
C) Amazonas
D) Minas Gerais
E) the cerrado

Question 47

South America displays a great variety of natural habitats due to its latitudinal extent.

Question 48

Which of the following countries has the most compact territorial shape?

A) Chile
B) Argentina
C) Uruguay
D) Panama
E) Peru

Question 49

Chile's copper deposits are located closest to which of the following areas:

A) Santiago in Middle Chile
B) the Atacama Desert
C) Tierra del Fuego
D) the Amazon Basin
E) the border with Brazil

Question 50

Brazil's Northeast __________________.

A) was where Brazil's early plantation economy first developed
B) produces most of the country's coffee crop
C) is the site of Brazil's most spectacular recent surge of economic development
D) contains the largest number of European settlers in the country
E) remains mainly Amerindian country because most of the indigenous peoples have resettled here

Question 51

The best example of an elongated state in South America,and probably the world,is _________.

A) Peru
B) Brazil
C) Chile
D) Bolivia
E) Uruguay

Question 52

Brazil's highly successful social program called Bolsa Família____________.

A) gives families small amounts of cash to keep their children in school
B) is a "zero hunger" program
C) seeks to reunite families that became separated during rural-urban migration
D) encourages low birth rates
E) requires participation in elections

Question 53

The desert in the north of Chile is named the _______________.

A) Pampa
B) Patagonian Plateau
C) Atacama
D) cerrado
E) llanos

Question 54

A growth pole is ___________________.

A) an established manufacturing center that dominates a substantial hinterland
B) any large city in a national core area
C) a location where a set of activities, given a start, will grow, setting off ripples of development in a surrounding area
D) a location, now in decline, that served as a focal point for a developing region in the past
E) a high-technology field instrument that precisely measures a locality's economic growth

Question 55

The birth rate in Brazil over the past decade has ______________.

A) declined
B) increased rapidly
C) fallen behind the country's death rate
D) increased slowly
E) become South America's highest

Question 56

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

A) Brazil is the largest country in South America.
B) The Northeast is Brazil's poorest subregion.
C) Russia, Canada, China, and the United States are all larger territorially than Brazil.
D) Brazil's population is one of the fastest growing in the world.
E) Brazil has an ethnically diverse population.

Question 57

The dry inland back country in Brazil's Northeast is known as the _______________.

A) Amazon Basin
B) cerrado
C) favela
D) inner Northwest
E) sertão

Question 58

The capital of Brazil is ____________.

A) Brasília
B) Rio de Janeiro
C) São Paulo
D) Salvador
E) Brazil City

Question 59

Brasília is a classic example of a ___________________.

A) megacity
B) primate city
C) coastal urban complex
D) buffer state
E) forward capital

Question 60

The leading agricultural activity of the Pampa region is the production of _____________.

A) coffee
B) cattle
C) sugarcane
D) tropical fruits and vegetables
E) tobacco

Question 61

The Incas were true colonizers who contributed much of their culture to the areas they occupied.

Question 62

Racial mixing has occurred more extensively in Brazil than in Argentina.

Question 63

The Zone of Maturity in the "Latin" American City model contains the best housing outside the spine.

Question 64

Lake Maracaibo in Colombia is the focus of the oil industry in that country.

Question 65

The economies of the "Three Guianas" largely resemble those of the Caribbean Islands.

Question 66

Lima,the capital of Peru,is a city that was not taken over from indigenous peoples but was founded by the Spanish.

Question 67

Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo is not really a "lake" but an inlet of the Caribbean Sea.

Question 68

The slums and poorest neighborhoods in the "Latin" American City model occupy the outer urban ring as well as the least desirable sectors leading away from city center.

Question 69

Lima,the capital of Peru,is located in one of the most populous basins of the Andes.

Question 70

After independence in 1975,many people in Suriname immigrated to the Netherlands.

Question 71

Ecuador's population is predominantly located in the Andean Highlands of the country.

Question 72

Given the country's sizeable revenue from oil,Venezuelans enjoy a high standard of living.

Question 73

Bolivia is not disadvantaged by being landlocked because it has good river connections to both the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans.

Question 74

Guayaquil is the capital of Ecuador.

Question 75

South America's population distribution mostly adheres to the continent's coast.

Question 76

Guyana and Suriname have substantial South Asian Indian population sectors.

Question 77

Paraguay is South America's only landlocked country.

Question 78

As in the Netherlands,Bolivia's capital city functions are divided between two administrative headquarters.

Question 79

Iquitos is Bolivia's "Atlantic port."

Question 80

The Spanish territories located closest to centers of viceroyalty power were the first to become independent from Spain during the 1800s.