Waterways
The area that a river and its tributaries drain
What is a basin?
Warm woodland that receives a great deal of rain
What is a rainforest?
Area of high, flat land
What is a plateau?
Usually exist along the outer edge of tropical rainforest climates
What is the tropical wet/dry climate?
Percentage of Brazil covered by forest
What is about 60%?
Umbrella-like covering
What is a canopy?
Area of the Amazon River Basin
What is 2 million square miles?
Steep slopes
What are escarpments?
Climate along the equator in northern Brazil. Every day is warm and wet.
What is tropical rainforest climate?
Reason for increase in logging the Amazon Basin
What is more roads?
World's second longest river
What is the Amazon?
The Amazon's volume is ____ times that of the Mississippi
What is 10 times?
Grassy, treeless plains
What are pampas?
Region between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle
What is the temperate zone?
Brazil's mineral resources
What are iron ore, tin, copper, bauxite, gold , and manganese?
percentage of Brazil's population that lives in the Amazon Basin
What is 6%?
World's richest biological resource
What is the Selva?
What is the Atlantic Lowland?
Winds that bring a huge amount of rain
What are monsoons?
Main coffee growing areas in Brazil
What are the Eastern highlands and the Atlantic Lowlands?
Ocean that the Amazon River flows into
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Mountain range where the Amazon River begins
What are the Andes Mountains?
Brazil's second largest city
What is Rio De Janeiro?
Hottest and driest part of the country
What is the Northeastern part of the Brazilian Highlands/semiarid climate?
Sugar cane production has gone up since it is used in __________
What is the production of ethanol?