1. Exam Review III
This review uses a map of region of Latin America to help you remember the “big ideas” about this region.
Directions: Use the mouse to click on a colored button to animate a question about the country/region. Click the same button again to get the correct answer
Do not use arrow keys or the scroll button. That will simply end the presentation.

2. Which of the following regions in Brazil is the least inhabited and least explored.
the northeast region
the southeast region
the Brazilian Highlands
the Amazon River region
The Sandinistas in Nicaragua, death squads in El Salvador, and caudillios in Guatemala are guerrilla groups involved in political conflict that stem from what basic challenges in the region?
Since the 1960s, which of the four Andean countries’ economies has benefited from the export of oil?
Urbanization in Brazilian cities such as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro has led to the development of ____, or slum communities that live on the hillsides or swamplands of cities.
What caused Argentina’s military to allow open elections in the 1980s?
A new president was elected.
People demonstrated at the presidential palace to support military rule.
Argentina lost a war with Great Britain.
Rural people stopped moving to Buenos Aires.
How has the physical geography of the Andean countries affected the business of agriculture?
The three Guianas in South America share all of the following characteristics except
similar ethnic composition
tropical wet climate
rain forests
narrow coastal plain
Factories located on the U.S.-Mexican border whose negative impacts include: tedious labor, air/water pollution, and poor worker health are called _________.
In a program of land redistribution after the Mexican Revolution the government bought out _______ owners & awarded peasants with _____ where they practiced subsistence farming.
(Fill in the blank with two Spanish terms from this unit.)
Four large beds of “liquid gold” lie in the eastern llanos of this nation and since its discovery has dominated its economy. What and who is it?
How does the climate of Central America differ on the Caribbean coast compared to the Pacific coast?
(Think precipitation)
Great rivers, Andean region, tropical lowlands, the Pampas, and Patagonia describe the physical characteristics of what South American region?
Name three ways that Brazil has attempted to solve overcrowding in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and encourage settlement in the country’s interior.
This country’s reliance on one-crop has contributed to an inadequate food supply for its people as well as a risk of economic failure if demand for the product declines.
What is the country and crop?
Describe the two ways in which the Caribbean Islands were formed.
Ecuador
Because of varied elevation in and around the Andes Mountains, farmers resort to “vertical trade.”
volcanic islands = Greater Antilles and some Lesser Antilles
coral islands = Bahamas and some Lesser Antilles
petroleum in Venezuela
favelas
the southern grassland countries of Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina
shortage & unequal distribution of available farmland as well as limited access to technology and methods
“planted” a new capital city: Brasilia
began massive road building project
offered land grants and mining permits
Caribbean Coast = tropical wet ∴ tropical rainforest
Pacific Coast = tropical wet/dry ∴ tropical grassland
Columbia and coffee
hacienda, ejidos
maquiladores