Brazil

Question 1

What is the Amazon Basin?

Answer 1

-the land drained by the Amazon River// 2.7 square miles

Question 2

The Cerrado includes ______, a parklike landscape of grasslands, as well as forests

Answer 2

savanna

Question 3

_________ cover most of the country.

Answer 3

Highlands (lowlands are vast though)

Question 4

Brazil’s highest point is __________, and is in the ____________.

Answer 4

Neblina Peak + Guiana Highlands

Question 5

In order from north to south along the Atlantic Coast:
________,
________, then
________.

Answer 5

low-lying land
Brazilian Highlands
lowlands

Question 6

It is _______ in the north and _________ in the south.

Answer 6

tropical + sub-tropical

Question 7

In the Northeast, __________ and ________ stove during the summer. (What months?) Temperatures can rise above ________ degrees Fahrenheit.

Answer 7

heavy rain and flooding // November-April // 100

Question 8

From north to south, climates are:
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 8

Tropical wet
Tropical wet and dry
Semiarid
Humid subtropical

Question 9

Most of Brazil is covered in __________.

Answer 9

forest ( second being savanna)

Question 10

Land use in order is:
1-__________
2-__________

Answer 10

1-forestry and grazing

2-farming

Question 11

Forests produce:

____________________________________________________________________________________.

Answer 11

rubber, palm oil, timber
//
Hardwood trees give: furniture, flooring, ect.

Question 12

There are many _________. The largest is _________. It gives power to _____ and_____.

Answer 12

Hydroelectric dams // Itaipu Dam // Brazil (duhhh) and Paraguay

Question 13

_______ wash from the Andes, making it good farmland.

Answer 13

sediments

Question 14

Soil fertility comes mainly from _____________________.

Answer 14

leaves that fall to the ground

Question 15

_______ and _______ protect the forests from the oceans waves.

Answer 15

sea grasses and corral

Question 16

The ______ is a leafy tent that bears fruit and houses most of the rainforest’s animals.

Answer 16

canopy

Question 17

What speeds up decay?

Answer 17

Heat, moisture, and insects

Question 18

Most nutrients in the rain forest can be found where?

Answer 18

In the trees

Question 19

The Amazon is affected by what?

Answer 19

Seasonal flooding

Question 20

Permanently flooded forests are known as _______.

Answer 20

Igapo

Question 21

Seasonly flooded forests are known as ________.

Answer 21

Varzea

Question 22

Waters can rise up to ________ feet in areas they normally wouldn’t during the rainy season.

Answer 22

40

Question 23

The jaguar has adaption like…

Answer 23

Climbing into the canopy, swimming, and attacking caimans (Amazon crocodiles).

Question 24

1st largest and 2nd largest cities are…

Answer 24

1 São Paulo ( population 19 million)

2 Rio de Janeiro ( population 12 million)

Question 25

The three ethnic races are…

Answer 25

European, African, Native American

Question 26

What port handles the highest volume of shipping in all of Latin America?

Answer 26

Santos

Question 27

_______ are overcrowded. Two large inland cities are _________ and _______.

Answer 27

coastal // Brasília and Manaus

Question 28

________ is Brazil’s only free trade zone that allows production of goods.

Answer 28

Manaus

Question 29

Poor neighborhoods are called _______.

Answer 29

favelas

Question 30

What percent of Brazilians own more than 70 percent of the land and control half the countries wealth.

Answer 30

10 percent

Question 31

Since 1980, poverty has increased by __________.

Answer 31

50 percent

Question 32

Brazil is both multiethnical and ________.

Answer 32

Multicultural

Question 33

The Portuguese royal family lived in Brazil for ________ years.

Answer 33

13

Question 34

Was only empire in Americas for ____ years.

Answer 34

80

Question 35

Portuguese first came to Brazil in _________.

Answer 35

1500

Question 36

Most Native Americans were originally located by the…

Answer 36

Coast of the Amazon Basin

Question 37

In what year did Spain claim all American land west of a certain line of longitude? Also, what was the name of the treaty?

Answer 37

1494 // Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 38

Brazil wood produces __________.

Answer 38

Red-dye

Question 39

What is an export economy?

Answer 39

An economy based off of exports.

Question 40

After the Africans worked on sugar plantations, they worked where?

Answer 40

Gold mines of Mina’s Gerais

Question 41

How many out of the ten million enslaved Africans were brought to Brazil?

Answer 41

3-4 million

Question 42

Capoeira is what?

Answer 42

A blend of martial arts and dance

Question 43

Slavery was outlawed in ________.

Answer 43

1888

Question 44

What is mercantilism?

Answer 44

Colonies benefiting from parent country

Question 45

Brazilians were expected to send exports only to _____.

Answer 45

Portugal

Question 46

Napoleon invaded Brazil in ________, planting seeds of _________.

Answer 46

1807 // independence

Question 47

What date did Portuguese ships first arrive in Brazil?

Answer 47

March 7, 1808

Question 48

Brazil’s population is about ______.

Answer 48

200 million

Question 49

The king returned to Portugal in _____.

Answer 49

1821

Question 50

The kings son, Pedro 1, declared independence for Brazil in _______.

Answer 50

1822

Question 51

By the mid-1800s ______ was Brazil’s main source of income.

Answer 51

Coffee

Question 52

What was the boom and bust cycle?

Answer 52

A period of strong economic growth followed by a period of sharp decline