GEOG TEST 1 PART 4

Question 1

Tierra Caliente

Answer 1

sea level -3000 ft

-sugar cane, tropical fruits, lowland tubers, maize, rice poultry, pigs, and cattle

Question 2

Tierra Templada

Answer 2

3000-6000 ft

coffe,maize,warm weather vegetables, cut flowers, shorth horn cattle

Question 3

Tierra Fria

Answer 3

6000-12000 ft

wheat,barley,maize,tubers,sheep,guinea pigs, llama, alpaca,vincuna

Question 4

Tierra Helada

Answer 4

12000 ft and above

highland grains, tubers, sheep, guinea pigs, llama, alpaca, and vincuna

Question 5

How are settlement patterns in South America different from other regions of the globe

Answer 5

• live at higher altitudes

- decidedly urban

Question 6

altitudinal zonation

Answer 6

the relationship between cooler temperatures at higher elevations and changes in vegetation

Question 7

What areas have higher population densities than others?

Answer 7

-the coast
-interior areas
-primate cities(mexico city area,toluca, and puebla
rio de janeiro, sao Paulo,campinas,and santos)

Question 8

How does the Latin American Urban From differ from the North American urban form?

Answer 8

• a clear business district exist in the older colonial core
• residential quality declines moving from the center to the periphery
• along the spine are superior services, roads, and transportation

Question 9

What are the primary languages

Answer 9

Primary/Dominant Languages

• Spanish
• Portuguese

Secondary Languages

• Quechua
• Mayan

Question 10

What are the 4 Ethnic Groups of Latin America?

Answer 10

• indigenous
• European
• African
• Mestizo

Question 11

What is the Monroe doctrine? and how has it impacted the geopolitics of Latin America?

Answer 11

• 1823 doctrine
• united states would not tolerate European military intervention in the Western Hemisphere
• the doctrine was repeatedly invoked to justify U.S. political and military intervention

Question 12

What are the major sectors of Latin American economies?

Answer 12

• agricultural production(ex.Brazil and soy)
• mining and forestry(ex.Chile and copper)
• oil/petroleum(Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Brazil)

Question 13

Dependency Theory

Answer 13

Its central premise is that underdevelopment was created by the expansion of European capitalism into the region that served to develop “core” countries in Europe and to impoverish and make dependent peripheral areas such as Latin America

Question 14

Cultural Syncretism

Answer 14

The blending of two or more cultures, which produces a synergistic third culture that exhibits traits from all cultural parents