Chapter 8 Review

Question 1

Before the first contact with Europeans in the 1500's, many groups of these people lived in what is now Brazil

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indigenous

Question 2

Where is the Pampas?

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D

Question 3

Where is the Northeast Highlands?

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B

Question 4

What is Brazil's current form of government?

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democractic republic

Question 5

Where is the Amazon River?

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F

Question 6

The most popular sport in Brazil is?

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soccer

Question 7

Which is not Brazil the largest exporter of in the world?

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rice

Question 8

Queimada Grande is forbidden to humans because of large amounts of what there?

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poisonous snakes

Question 9

Where is the Amazon Rainforest?

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C

Question 10

This city was designed to look like an airplane when viewed from above.

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Brasilia

Question 11

Treeless grassland

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pampas

Question 12

native to the area

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indigenous

Question 13

Where is the Brasilian Highlands?

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A

Question 14

What climate zone is most of Brazil located?

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Tropic

Question 15

What is sugarcane that is grown in Brazil turned into?

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ethanol

Question 16

Remote inland regions, far from the coasts

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hinterland

Question 17

Set free

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emancipate

Question 18

Makeshift community on the edge of a city

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favela

Question 19

The world-famous statue overlooking Rio de Janeiro is named what?

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Cristo Redentor

Question 20

An area into which a river and its tributaries drain

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basin

Question 21

A small river that flows into a larger river

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tributary

Question 22

A central city and the built-up areas around it

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metropolitan area

Question 23

What is the city in the rainforest began by an American automaker to produce cheap rubber?

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Fordlandia

Question 24

Area of high, flat land

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plateau

Question 25

What is the capital of Brazil?

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Brasilia

Question 26

Steep cliff at the edge of a plateau with a lowland area before

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plateau

Question 27

Dense stand of trees and other growth that receives high amounts of precipitations

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rainforests

Question 28

This Brazilian city hosted the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

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Rio de Janeiro

Question 29

Brazil was a colony of this country from the 1500's until the 1800's

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Portugal

Question 30

A method of farming in forests that involves cutting down trees & burning the underbrush to create fields

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slash & burn agriculture

Question 31

Required by law

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compulsory

Question 32

Where is the Atlantic Ocean?

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G

Question 33

Umbrella-like covering formed by the tops of trees in a rainforest

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canopy

Question 34

Where is the Atlantic Coastal Lowlands?

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E

Question 35

This Brazilian river is an important freshwater resource and the second-longest in the world

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Amazon

Question 36

The largest or most important city in a metropolitan area

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central city

Question 37

This highway is one of many new highways that make it easier to travel to the interior of Brazil

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Trans-Amazonica

Question 38

What is the national animal of Brazil?

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Jaguar

Question 39

This city is Brazil's industrial center and one of the world's largest cities.

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Sao Paulo

Question 40

The only two countries that do not boarder Brazil are?

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Ecuador & Chile

Chapter 8 Review

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Chapter 8 Review

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