Environment
The #1 environmental issue in the region.
What is deforestation?
The mean TFR (+/- 0.1)
What is 2.1?
First migratory wave (after natives).
What is Spanish and Portuguese colonizers.
#1 issue in the region.
What is corruption?
What is primary (ag, mining)?
The #2 environmental problem in the region.
What is water contamination and lack of reliable fresh water (for human consumption)?
Three reasons for why population density is highest on the coasts?
What are Brazilian Shield, Andes, Amazon rainforest?
Slaves from Western Africa were brought in to work in the _________________
What are latifundias (large estates, i.e. farming/ranches)?
#2 issue in the region.
One pro, one con of remittances.
What is proven way to alleviate poverty in some countries, and capital flight.
The three major physical geographical features / barriers in South America?
What are: Andes Mountains, Brazilian Shield, Amazon Rainforest
A city that is disproportionally larger than the next city in a country is a ____________ city.
What is primate?
Fourth and fifth migratory waves.
Who are Germans and Italians (prior/post WWII), and Asians (Chinese and Japanese, especially post WWII).
Currency Argentina will adopt instead of its own.
What is the Brazilian Real?
Assembly plants for global economy located on U.S. Mexico border.
What are maquiladoras?
The pattern of variation of plant and animal species relative to elevation, in response to vertical differences in climate (particularly temperature and precipitation).
What is altitudinal zonation?
Name of the ring about most Latin American cities?
What is Periferico?
Key reason why Latin America is considered a true melting pot.
What is being allowed to be married across race from the get go?
One pro, one con of neoliberal economic policies.
What is influx of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and cons: capital flight, unequal access to development outcomes.
Two main reasons deforestation is occurring.
What are charcoal (tied to mining) and crop/grassification for cattle ranching (farming/pasture).
Name of city structural element that connects CBD to Mall in Latin American cities.
What is Elite Spine?
Main reason there is steady emigration from Latin America to EU and Japan.
What is work visas if you can prove ancestry?
Three countries that have laid claim in the past to the Atacama desert.
What are Bolivia (would allow access to the Pacific), Peru and Chile (fighting over copper). It's Chile's now.
Two main reasons hindering Latin America growth and development?