World Geography Semester Test Review

Reliance on gasohol has cut Brazil's need to import foreign oil.

Foothills region

Similar climates, vegetation, or landforms can be used to divide the earth into

The most common type of mechanical weathering occurs when

Narrow strip of land connecting 2 larger masses

Parallel mountain ranges

When geographers observe moraines- ridge like piles of rock and debris- they conclude that

Many poor people in Brazil live in sertãos.

Temperate grasslands in Argentina and Uruguay

Forested regions to the east of the Andes (located in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia)

Broad river mouth formed where a flooded river valley meets the sea

Majority of Brazil's urban poor now live in affordable public housing called favelas

Converting land used for farming into land used for a housing developments is an example of?

Colombia's tenant farmers

Because it lies at the crossroads of 4 tectonic plates, Mexico's central plateau

Mexico's heartland region is dominated by

An internal force that helps create new landforms is

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People of mixed African and other ancestry.

Andean Highland in Ecuador

Tropical grassland region that lies on both sides of the Orinoco River in Venezuela

Andean Highland in Peru and Bolivia

Armed force not part of a nation's army

Group of islands

Landforms are commonly classified according to differences in

Argentinian cowboys

By encouraging ecotourism Brazil hopes to benefit from rainforest without destroying it.

Elevation boundary above which continuous forest vegetation cannot grow

Steep escarpment divides Brazil's interior from coastal plain formed barrier for transportation