Key Questions 1
What land forms and rivers are found in the Atlantic South America?
What is the Amazon River basin, the Brazilian Highlands, the Amazon, the Andes, and the Amazon rain forest.
What are Brazil’s four major regions like today?
What is the Amazon covers much of northern and western Brazil, and the major inland city is Manuas with a population of more than 1 million people. The Northeast contains many colonial cities, and is Brazil’s poorest region. The Southeast is Brazil’s richest country and has the most productive farms and industry in the country. The Interior region contains Brazil’s national capital Brazillia, Braziilia is designed for 500 thousand people but more than that amount live there.
What are Brazil's four major regions?
What is Amazon, Southeast, Northeast, Interior
Resources of the Amazon River Basin
What is Rain forest - for food, wood, rubber, medicinal plants, gold and other minerals
Where is much of Argentina’s industry located?
What is Buenos Aires
What are the region’s climates, vegetation, and wildlife like?
What is tropical, moist climates, humid tropical climate, and the world’s greatest variety of plants and animal life.
What is the history of Argentina?
What is farther north of the Pampas Indians farmed and built irrigation systems. Spanish conquers spread into Southern South America, and established the first Spanish settlement in Argentina. In 1816 Argentina gained independence and resulted into people getting hurt in wars.
Characteristics of The Amazon
What is Dense rain forests, isolated villages, Manaus - major city, large mining district, settlers miners.
Resources of Brazilian Highlands and Brazilian Plateau
What is Minerals
From what major immigrant groups are many Brazilians descended?
What is Africans, Portuguese, Spaniards, Germans, Italians, and Poles.
What are some of the region’s important resources?
What is Food, Water, natural rubber, medicinal plants, gold, silver, copper, and iron.
What is Argentina like today?
What is new immigrants from Europe started coming into Argentina. Throughout the 1900s Argentina struggled under military governments and dictators. In 1982 Argentina lost a war with the United Kingdom and gave up their power to an elected government.
Characteristics of the Southeast
What is Coffee growing area, Rio de Janeiro, richest region, most people, Sao Paulo.
Resources of Gran Chaco, Pampas, and Patagonia
What is Minerals, oil, Natural gas.
What is Brazil’s poorest region? What is its richest?
What is Northeast, and Southeast.
What is the history of Brazil?
What is most Brazilians descended from three groups Northern Asia, Portugal and Europe, and Africa. The first human inhabitants arrived thousands of years ago and spreaded across the tropical rain forests and savannas. Colonists brought slaves from Africa to help alongside Brazilian Indians on a large sugar Plantation.
What are the people and economy of Uruguay like today?
What is Uruguay's population is 88% European descent, and the about 12% is either mestizo, African, or Indian. Roman Catholisicm is the main religion of the country and Spanish is the official language. More than half of Uruguay economy is with Brazil and Argentina.
Characteristics of the Northeast
What is Old colonial cities, suffers from drought, poorest region, favelas.
When and from what country did Uruguay win independence? What about Paraguay?
What is 1825 Uruguay and 1811 Paraguay, Spain.
What major landforms lie between the Amazon River basin and Patagonia?
What is Brazillian Highlands, Brazillian Plateau, Gran Chaco, Pampas.
What are important characteristics of Brazil's people and culture?
What is out of all the 180 million Brazilians almost 40% of them are of mixed African and European descent. More than half that amount are ethnic European. Portuguese is the official language in Brazil.
What are the people and economy of Paraguay like today?
What is 95% of population is mestizo, 5 percent Paraguayan Indian or of European Descent, Catholic, Spanish or Guarani Spoken.
Characteristics of the Interior
What is Savannahs and dry woodlands, could become an agricultural area, Brasilia - the nation's capital.
What could be some disadvantages of being a landlocked country?
What is no access to the ocean, restricted trade, must keep good relations with neighbors for imports and export.
What are favelas
What is big large slums