Ch.5: South America Multiple Choice 01) Which of the following countries does not contain a portion of the Amazon Basin? a) Brazil b) Ecuador c) Peru d) Chile 02) The richest 20 percent of the South American population control what percentage of the realm's wealth? a) 2 percent b) 20 percent c) 50 percent d) 70 percent 03) Which of the following best defines an altiplano? a) a low area with small mountains b) a high-altitude valley of the Andes c) an agricultural area in Brazil d) a type of Brazilian aircraft 04) Which of the following was the core area of the Incan Empire? a) Cuzco b) Lima c) Brasilia d) Quito 05) The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 stipulated that a north-south boundary was to be drawn separating what two territories? a) Spain and France b) France and Britain c) Spain and Portugal d) the Netherlands and France 06) Which South American country was most transformed by the forced immigration of Africans in bondage? a) Argentina b) Brazil c) Colombia d) Paraguay 07) Which landlocked South American country would stand to benefit the most from the hidrovia waterway project? a) Peru b) Paraguay 13) The slums of South America's large cities are known as: a) mestizos b) favelas or barrios c) tierra templada d) altiplanos 14) Which of the following is an element of the informal sector of the economy? a) government workers b) unlicensed sellers of homemade goods c) mass-produced industrial goods d) the commercial agricultural sector . b) slum areas known as barrios or favelas. d) elite residential areas. 12) The disamenity sector of the Latin American city model is an inward. the elite residential sector contains the: a) commercial/industrial spine. b) disamenity sector. d) zone of in situ accretion. c) zone of maturity. narrow sectoral extension of the: a) peripheral squatter settlements. c) central plaza.c) Suriname d) Uruguay 08) Which of the following countries is an associate member of the Mercosur trading bloc? a) Colombia b) Argentina c) Uruguay d) Paraguay 09) What percentage of South Americans lives in urban areas? a) 20 b) 25 c) 50 d) 80 10) 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 11) In the Latin American city model. d) Brazil. 22) Unlike Peru's coast. 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 Chilean border 16) The dominant economic activity in Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo Lowland is: a) large-scale cattle herding. Colombia's capital city. d) Quechua. c) It contains a population that is three-quarters European. Ecuador's coastland consists of: a) desert. b) Incan. c) They have less varied physiographies. d) It is the smallest of the four Guianas in population size. . 17) Which of the following is true of Venezuela and Colombia as compared with the Guianas? a) They have larger territories and smaller populations. b) They have larger populations and smaller territories. d) coffee farming. 21) The language of the Inca state. c) Panama. is known as: a) Peruvian. 18) The largest country in terms of landmass in South America is: a) Venezuela. still spoken in parts of South America. 19) Which river basin holds the immense Llanos desert? a) Rio de la Plata b) Paraguay c) Amazon d) Orinoco 20) Which of the following is true of the country of Guyana? a) It was a British colony before independence in 1966. b) tourism. c) Creole. b) It is also called Suriname.15) Where is Bogotá. c) oil production. b) Colombia. d) They have been more successful in replacing the plantation economy. c) mountains that reach the sea. 23) In Ecuador. Brazil c) Peru. Ecuador. c) Guayaquil and Quito. a regional split is observed between: a) Quito and Lima. b) Guayaquil and Amazonia. and Brazil . 24) Which of the following countries does not have a common border with Bolivia? a) Argentina b) Chile c) Paraguay d) Colombia 25) What is a moderating influence on the colder climate of west-central Bolivia? a) Lake Titicaca b) the Atlantic Ocean c) the Pacific Ocean d) Rio de la Plata 26) Which of the following countries is landlocked? a) Uruguay b) Ecuador c) Paraguay d) Peru 27) Which of the following countries contains a population whose ethnicity is dominated by Amerindian ancestry? a) Argentina b) Brazil c) Paraguay d) Uruguay 28) Which of the following capital and country associations is incorrect? a) Santiago and Chile b) Montevideo and Paraguay c) La Paz and Bolivia d) Quito and Ecuador 29) The “Triple Frontier” is where which of the following three countries come together? a) Chile. Argentina. Bolivia. d) Lima and Bogotá. d) indented bays with many excellent port facilities. Argentina b) Paraguay.b) fertile tropical plains. c) Chile. b) the Falkland Islands. b) Brazil. d) tropical fruits and vegetables. 31) Most of Argentina's population is clustered in the: a) Gran Chaco. 36) Which of the following areas is closest to Chile's copper deposits? a) Santiago in Middle Chile b) the Atacama Desert c) Tierra del Fuego d) the Amazon River . c) the outcome of a controversial soccer match. is: a) Peru. Brazil 30) Argentina's dominant city is: a) Montevideo. and probably the world. Colombia. d) Bolivia. d) land claims in Antarctica. b) Patagonian North. b) meat and grain. d) Buenos Aires. c) sugarcane. d) Andean foothills. c) La Paz. c) Pampas. 32) Which of the following regions is not located in Argentina? a) Patagonia b) Pampa c) Altiplano d) Chaco 33) In 1982. 35) The best example of an elongated state in South America. 34) The leading agricultural activity of the Pampa region is the production of: a) coffee.d) Venezuela. b) Asunción. Argentina fought a war with Britain over: a) Tierra del Fuego. d) Salvador.37) The desert in the north of Chile is the: a) Chaco. 40) The birth rate in Brazil over the past decade has: a) declined. c) The United States. it still produces most of the country's coffee crop. 41) The capital of Brazil is: a) Brasília. d) increased slowly. d) It contains the largest number of European settlers in the country. b) Patagonian Plateau. 38) Which of the following countries has the South American realm’s most compact territorial shape? a) Chile b) Argentina c) Uruguay d) Panama 39) Which of the following statements regarding Brazil is false? a) Brazil is the largest country in South America. c) Atacama. and Japan have larger economies than Brazil. . 44) The dry inland backcountry in Brazil's Northeast is known as the: a) Amazon Basin. b) Rio de Janeiro. d) Tierra Arrido. with more than 20 percent of the total population? a) Rio de Janeiro b) São Paulo c) Amazonas d) Minas Gerais 43) Which of the following is true of Brazil's northeast? a) It was Brazil's source area: its early plantation economy first developed here. d) Brazil's population is one of the fastest growing in the developing world. China. b) The Northeast is Brazil's poorest subregion. b) Today. c) São Paulo. c) fallen behind the country's death rate. c) It is the site of Brazil's greatest decline in economic development. 42) What Brazilian State is the most populous. b) increased rapidly. setting off ripples of development in a surrounding area d) a location. 46) What Brazilian area is the world's leading producer of orange juice concentrate? a) Amazonas b) the cerrado c) the Citrus Belt d) São Paulo State 47) Which of the following best defines fazendas? a) coffee plantations b) a minority group in the Northeast of Brazil c) flat areas in the Amazon Basin d) Portuguese farmer colonies in the South 48) What is the Brazilian subregion with the most diverse European population? a) South b) Northeast c) Federal District d) cerrado 49) Which of the following best defines the cerrado? a) Brazil's coastal industrial zone b) the Triple Frontier's dominant ethnic group c) fertile savannas of Brazil's Interior subregion d) the wealthiest sector of the "Latin" American city 50) Rubber production has had the greatest impact on which Brazilian subregion? a) the South b) the Northeast c) the Southeast d) the North 51) Which of the following best describes a growth pole? 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 emerge. that served as a focal point for a developing region in the past .b) cerrado. c) earliest European settlements. now in decline. 45) Volta Redonda is most closely identified with Brazil's: a) iron and steel manufacturing activities. d) sertão. c) favela. b) growing hydroelectric power production capacity. d) Amazonian growth poles. (F) 67) Ecuador is the poorest country in South America. has supported the cultivation of potatoes and grains for centuries. 53) Which of the following is true of the current pattern of settlement of the Brazilian North? a) It has helped stem the tide of deforestation. . (T) 69) The land surrounding Lake Titicaca. is located in one of the most populous basins of the Andes. (T) 64) Lima. (F) 57) South America's population distribution may be characterized as peripheral. (F) 65) Iquitos is Bolivia's “Atlantic port. (T) 58) Brazil contains the largest Japanese community outside Japan. (T) 60) The Zone of Maturity in the South American city contains the best housing beyond the spine. (T) 56) Brazil attained independence from Portugal about 100 years after the rest of South America gained its independence from Spain. b) Chile. with the greater majority of people living on or near the coast. which lies on the Peru-Bolivia border. the capital of Peru. (F) 62) Guyana and Suriname have substantial South Asian populations. (T) 63) Following independence in 1975. (T) 61) Lake Maracaibo in Ecuador is the focus of the oil industry in that country. (F) 68) Bolivia's central government functions are divided between two cities.” (T) 66) Guayaquil is the capital of Ecuador. c) Bolivia. (T) . True/False 54) The gap between rich and poor in South America is narrowing. one-quarter of the population of Suriname emigrated to the Netherlands. d) Uruguay.52) Brazil's Polonoroeste Plan has called for settlement near the border with: a) Venezuela. d) It is attracting large numbers in the expansion of soybean plantations. (F) 55) The Incas were true colonizers who contributed much of their culture to the areas they occupied. b) It is solely based on the expansion of the rubber industry. (T) 59) The slums and poverty-stricken neighborhoods of the Latin American city occupy the outer urban ring as well as least desirable sectors leading away from the city center. c) It has resulted in a disruption of the aboriginal way of life in Amazonia. (T) 84) Belo Horizonte is a major metallurgical center in Brazil's Southeast. given a start. (F) 77) Uruguay's major farming region lies in the immediate hinterland of the capital.70) Landlocked Bolivia is not disadvantaged because it has excellent river connections to both the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. (T) 73) Argentina is the second largest country in South America in both area and population. so the black component in the population today is negligible. where European languages other than Portuguese still remain in use. fjorded region characterized by extreme aridity. (T) 74) Argentina's Pampa region contains the vast majority of the country's population.(F) 72) Paraguay is one of the only countries in the world to boast widespread use of an indigenous language. Brazil never had a major influx of Africans. (F) 76) Middle Chile is a rugged. (T) 79) Unlike the Caribbean and North America. is now the largest site of the country’s burgeoning high-tech industry. (F) 90) The cerrado is one of the world's most promising areas of agricultural development. (T) 85) The São Paulo area. its largest States lie in the east and northeast. once a center for automobile manufacturing. will expand and generate widening ripples of development in the surrounding area. (F) 80) Brazil is the South American country that exhibits the widest income gap. (T) . orange juice concentrate. (T) 82) Brazil is a federal republic. (F) 78) Brazil has common borders with every South American country except Chile and Ecuador. Santiago. (T) 86) Brazil exports large quantities of coffee. (T) 81) Brazil's rate of population increase has slowed considerably over the past three decades. (T) 91) A growth pole is a location where a set of activities. (F) 88) The South is Brazil's most “European” region. (T) 87) The Itaipu Dam represents the best possible hope for the development of Brazil's Northeast.(F) 71) Paraguay is South America's only landlocked country. (F) 83) The sertão is in Brazil's Northeast. (T) 75) About 90 percent of Chile's population is concentrated in the country's northern region around the city of Atacama. (F) 89) Brasília may be called a core area capital. and soybeans.