CrossWord Puzzle
The area that a river and it's tributaries drain into.
What is a Basin?
The region between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle.
What is the temperate zone?
The discovery of gold in the 1690s and then the discovery of this gem in the 1720s drew thousands of colonists to Brazil.
What are diamonds?
Brazil gained independence partly as an indirect result of the actions of this French emperor.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This is Brazil's largest metropolitan area.
What is São Paulo?
The treeless grassland of Argentina and Uruguay.
What is the Pampas?
These steep slopes rise from coast to the highlands, and have hindered development of inland areas.
What is an escarpment?
Brazil is the only South American country that has this European country's heritage.
What is Portuguese?
This term refers to a river or stream that flows into a larger one, or into a lake?
What is a tributary?
The Transamazonica Highway and other new roads have increased this industry, which causes destruction of the Amazon rain forest.
What is logging?
A dense stand of trees and other vegetation that receives a great deal of precipitation each year.
What is a Rainforest?
A method of farming in forests that involves cutting down trees and burning away underbrush to create fields for growing crops.
What is slash-and-burn agriculture?
In the 1600's, this crop was the main source of wealth in Brazil.
What is sugarcane?
This city was built as Brazil's new capital to encourage settlement in Brazil's interior.
What is Brasilia?
Brazil's most popular sport?
What is soccer?
The umbrella-like covering formed by the tops of trees in a rain forest.
What is a canopy?
This means that citizens have no choice in deciding whether or not to vote.
What is compulsory?
By 1500, there were 2 to 6 million of this type of peoples living in Brazil.
What are indigenous peoples?
Summer months in the United States is this season in Brazil.
What is winter?
Brazil's national food dish is a stew made of dried beef, pork, and this.
What are black beans?
A flat area that rises above the surrounding land.
What is a plateau?
To free slaves.
What is to emancipate?
What material extracted from brazilwood was highly valued in Europe?
What is red dye?
Recent improvements in this have made the resources in Brazil's vast interior available to its growing industries and population.
What is transportation?
Brazilians blended samba rhythms with jazz to introduce the world to this type of music.
What is the bossa nova?