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Figure 3-9 shows that Venezuela claims rights to a significant portion of this country: Figure 3-9 shows that Venezuela claims rights to a significant portion of this country:   A)  Guyana B)  Colombia C)  Brazil D)  Trinidad and Tobago E)  Panama


A) Guyana
B) Colombia
C) Brazil
D) Trinidad and Tobago
E) Panama

F) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

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The slums of South America's large cities are known as ____________.


A) favelas or barrios
B) tierra urbanas
C) altiplanos
D) llanos
E) llamas

F) C) and E)
G) A) and D)

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South America displays a great variety of natural habitats due to its latitudinal extent.

A) True
B) False

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Guayaquil is the capital of Ecuador.

A) True
B) False

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Brazil's cerrado is one of the world's most promising areas of agricultural development.

A) True
B) False

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The most populous Brazilian State is ____________.


A) Rio de Janeiro
B) São Paulo
C) Amazonas
D) Minas Gerais
E) the cerrado

F) A) and E)
G) D) and E)

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An altiplano is a(n) ____________.


A) low area with small mountains
B) high-elevation basin or valley
C) agricultural area in Brazil
D) plain in the Amazon Basin
E) altitudinal zone lying above the tierra firma

F) B) and D)
G) A) and E)

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The 2012 election of Pope Francis I,an Argentinian Jesuit cardinal,could be considered a manifestation of _______ _________.

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Liberation theology

Brazil contains the largest ethnic Japanese community outside Japan.

A) True
B) False

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True

The capital of Brazil is ___.

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The disamenity sector of the Latin American city model includes ___________.


A) peripheral squatter settlements
B) slum areas known as barrios or favelas
C) the central plaza
D) the elite residential areas
E) the CBD

F) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

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In 1982 Argentina fought a war with Britain over _______________.


A) Tierra del Fuego
B) the Falkland Islands
C) the outcome of a controversial soccer match
D) land claims in Antarctica
E) their common maritime boundary in the mid-Atlantic

F) A) and E)
G) All of the above

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Lima,the capital of Peru,is located in one of the most populous basins of the Andes.

A) True
B) False

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The cerrado is ________________.


A) Brazil's coastal industrial zone
B) the Triple Frontier's dominant ethnic group
C) a booming zone of soybean production in Brazil's Central-West subregion
D) the wealthiest sector of the "Latin" American city
E) the expanding Amazonian area recently cleared of rainforests

F) A) and E)
G) D) and E)

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Which of the following countries does NOT contain a portion of the Amazon Basin?


A) Brazil
B) Ecuador
C) Peru
D) Colombia
E) Chile

F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

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The Spanish territories located closest to centers of viceroyalty power were the first to become independent from Spain during the 1800s.

A) True
B) False

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Commercial agriculture in South America is best typified by


A) highland farming
B) subsistence farming
C) plantations
D) agroforestry
E) shifting cultivation

F) A) and E)
G) None of the above

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Argentina's primate city is ______________.


A) Montevideo
B) Asunción
C) La Paz
D) Buenos Aires
E) Cordoba

F) B) and D)
G) None of the above

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D

The language of the Inca state,still spoken in parts of South America,is known as __________.


A) Altiplanoan
B) Incanese
C) lingua fria
D) lingua franca
E) Quechua

F) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

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The South American country that contains the northern end of the Andes is ___________.


A) Venezuela
B) Colombia
C) Panama
D) Brazil
E) Suriname

F) A) and E)
G) All of the above

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