the world's largest (or second largest) river system?
What is the Amazon?
100
the part of the economy based on odd jobs and not reported to the government
What is the informal economy?
200
the official language of Argentina
What is Spanish?
200
the capital of Brazil
What is Brasilia?
200
completely surrounded by land
What is landlocked?
200
the removal of large areas of forest in Brazil
What is deforestation?
200
a very large urban area that has grown to include the surrounding smaller cities and suburbs
What is a megacity?
300
most people in Argentina practice this religion
What is Catholicism?
300
the largest city in Brazil and in South America
What is Sao Paulo?
300
the movement of people into cities and urban areas
What is urbanization?
300
wide, grassy plains in central Argentina
What are the Pampas?
300
planting the same crops in an area year after year can lead to this
What is soil exhaustion?
400
a heavily developed agricultural region in Argentina
What are the Pampas?
400
the host city for the 2016 Summer Olympics
What is Rio de Janeiro?
400
approximately this percentage of people in Uruguay live in cities (50%, 60%, 70%, 90%)
What is about 90%?
400
a region of dry plains and plateaus in southern Argentina
What is Patagonia?
400
huge slums in Brazil
What are favelas?
500
Argentine cowboys
Who are gauchos?
500
a religion which is a mixture of African, Native American and Christian beliefs and traditions
What is macumba?
500
the ability to read and write the language of your country
What is literate or being literate?
500
located at the southern tip of South America
What is Cape Horn?
500
woman who was considered to be a national hero by the people of Argentina because of her work to help build hospitals and schools and to help gain women's rights