geography "test dec ninth"

Question 0

They wanted the gold and silver of the inca

Answer 0

Spanish

Question 1

Defendants of the people who may have crossed the land bridge from Siberia to Alaska

Answer 1

Inca

Question 2

Millions of native people still speak this language

Answer 2

Quechua

Question 3

Great leader of the independence movement who led the revolution against Spain

Answer 3

Simon Bolivar

Question 4

Literacy are higher here than in Mexico, Brazil, or Central America

Answer 4

Spanish-speaking South America

Question 5

Education is very important here

Answer 5

Chile

Question 6

Spain and Portugal reached an agreement to split South America in this treaty

Answer 6

Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494

Question 7

The Portuguese put the native people to work but this happened

Answer 7

Many died from disease so they brought in African slaves

Question 8

More than 500,000 native peoples still live in Brazil, most of them heren

Answer 8

Amazon Rain Forest

Question 9

Brazil is ranked her as the largest economy in the world with more than 200 million people

Answer 9

8th

Question 10

They are a leader of making cars, most of which run on what

Answer 10

Ethanol – a fuel that comes from sugar cane

Question 11

In 1960, 22% of the population lived in cities now the number is over what percentage

Answer 11

85%

Question 12

The most colorful feast day in Brazil

Takes place to the music of the SAMBA

Answer 12

Carnival

Question 13

What is the capital of Brazil

Answer 13

Brasilia

Question 14

What is the economic heart and the biggest city

Answer 14

São Paulo

Question 15

What is the cultural center of Brazil

Answer 15

Rio de Janeiro

Question 16

What dots the hillsides of Rio

Answer 16

Desperately poor slums

Question 17

What are two results of poverty in Rio

Answer 17

Crime waves

Drug abuse

Question 18

A wide range of plant and animal species

Answer 18

Biodiversity

Question 19

Cutting down and clearing away of trees

Answer 19

Deforestation

Question 20

An environmental organization agrees to pay off a certain amount of government debt and the country agrees to preserve a percentage of its rain forests

Answer 20

Debt-for-nature swap

Question 21

Native peoples cut down rain forests not realizing that the soil isn’t what

Answer 21

The soil isn’t fertile

Question 22

In what way do rain forests help regulate the Earth’s climate

Answer 22

They absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen

Question 23

What was formally known as global warming and is when the temperature of the atmosphere beings to rise

Answer 23

Climate change

Question 24

What percentage of the Earth’s surface do the rain forests cover

Answer 24

6%

Question 25

What estimated percentage of the plants and animals on earth live in the rain forests

Answer 25

50%

Question 26

What does democracy depend on

Answer 26

Free and fair elections
Citizen participation
Majority rule with minority rights
Guaranteed freedoms

Question 27

What has Latin America seemed uninterested in until recently

Answer 27

Democracy

Question 28

What did many of the oligarchies that developed in Latin America do

Answer 28

Censored the press
Limited free speech
Punished dissent

Question 29

A military dictator or political boos

Answer 29

Caudillo