Facts
Where are urban areas located?
São Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro are mostly along the beach.
Several ways people can save the rainforest are?
We can chop down fewer trees, use less paper, properly dispose of our waste so it doesn’t end up in the river, plant trees.
Who is the famous explorer who found South America and what country is he from?
Amerigo Vesspucci from Italy.
Brazil invest in infrastructure? What is that?
Brazil Invests in roads and builds and schools.
What are the cowboys called in South America?
Gaucho
Where does the Amazon River begin and end?
It starts in Peru and ends in the Atlantic ocean.
All countries in South America speak Spanish except, which of the following?
Guiana, French Guiana, Suriname and Brazil.
What is Samba
African dance Rhythms that are usually played during the festival Carnival ( religious celebration before lent)
South American nations are _______________________ with each other?
Interdependent.
Please name the three regions of South America?
They were developed on the Pacific coast, the major rivers of the Amazon basin, and the Andes mountains are the main regions.
The layers of the rainforest
The emergent layer, Canopy, Understory, The forest floor.
What makes the Guianas different from one another?
English- Guyana French- French Guiana
What is mechanization?
The act or process of mechanizing. Causing to be performed by machines, especially by a highly technical implementation, usually involving electronic hardware. The use of machinery to replace human or animal labor, especially in agriculture and industry.
What are some limits to economic growth?
Too much government
Indigenous people of the rainforest are endangered by?
Deforestation.
Popular in Brazil, what are long serial dramas made for tv?
Telenovela
What type of government was put in place during the 1950s?
Communism turned into a dictatorship
What is Carnival?
A celebration of festive culture before lent. Rio de Janeiro Carnival.
Reasons for deforestation?
The logging industry chops down trees for wood.
What vocabulary terms mean where people bring over culture and what is an ethnic group?
Culture diffusion and A group of people who identify with one another, especially based on racial, cultural, or religious grounds. People of the same race or nationality share a distinctive culture.
Do workers tend to be less productive when they are low?
Literacy rates
What are the three challenges that face South America today?
Some challenges are Housing, crime, and transportation.