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A fertile area in a desert that has a source of water

What is an oasis?

Found in the rain forest, the name of the leaves which form “dense roof- like cover:

What is a canopy ?

When a government sells industries it owns to private businesses

What is privatization?

A word meaning large, slow-moving mass of ice and snow

What is a glacier?

A flat, grassy region, or plain

What is a savanna?

Rain forests are important because they contribute to the world’s ___________ supply

What is oxygen?

True/False The government of Brazil moved its capital in order to attract people to its interior?

What is true?

True/False Most of Brazil’s population lives along the coast?

What is true?

Benefit of people moving into the Brazilian rain forest

What is diversify Brazil’s economy ?

Brazil’s concern regarding the rain forest

What is to protect it from too much timber being cut down

The 3 main regions of Peru

What are the sierra, the coastal plain and the selva

Most Quechua living in the altiplano make a living in this manner

What is farming and herding?

Name of the mountain region of Peru

What is the sierra?

The high plateau region in the Andes where a number of groups, including the Quechua, live

What is the Altiplano ?

Hundreds of years ago, Peru was inhabited by this group of people

Who were the Incas?

True/False Chile inspects all luggage entering the country because it tries to protect its agriculture products, by searching for bugs and animal matter

What is true?

Since Chile is in the southern Hemisphere, its seasons happen

What is opposite of the United States?

Chile is the world’s largest exporter of

What is copper?

Magellan’s expedition was first to __________ the globe

What is circumnavigate?

Santiago’s pollution problem is caused in part by

What is the city’s location in the Andes Mountains?

The reason that Venezuela was one of the world’s most richest countries in the early 1980s

What were its vast supplies of oil?

This happened to Venezuela’s economy when oil prices fell in the mid-1980s

What is suffered a decline?

An overthrow of a ruler or government by an organized group which then takes power, is

What is a coup?

True/False Most of Venezuela’s population lives in the countryside

What is false?

After oil prices dropped in the mid-1980s, Venezuela's government decided to

What is take over privately owned businesses?