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Section 1
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A small strip of land connecting two larger bodies of land is called
isthmus.
Which of the following Caribbean countries possesses major natural gas deposits:
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad is one of the Greater Antilles
FALSE
hich of the following countries is located within the culture hearth known as Mesoamerica?
Guatemala
Which of the following Caribbean republics was affected by French culture?
Haiti
As a result of U.S. interest in a Panama Canal during the early 20th century:
Panama became independent from Colombia
Guadeloupe is a dependency of:
France
Trinidad is one of the Greater Antilles.
FALSE
Which of the following does not lie in the Euro-Amerindian Mainland?
Dominican Republic
Coffee is a major source of Guatemala's income.
Correct TRUE
As one travels north leaving South America, the first country encountered on the Central American land bridge is ________.
Panama
The Mayan and Aztec civilizations were both part of the Mesoamerican culture hearth.
TRUE
The Mayan civilization is the only one on the world culture map that arose in a tropical lowland.
TRUE
Which Caribbean island contains more than one state?
Hispaniola
Which of the following does not lie in the Euro-Amerindian Mainland?
Dominican Republic
The capital of Nicaragua, located on the mountainous Pacific side of the country, is:
Managua
"Latin" America is a term that refers only to the geographic area constituted by the island and mainland portions of Middle America.
FALSE
An island that is home to a large community of South Asians is:
Trinidad
Which of the following is not a major cause of tropical deforestation in Central America?
Costa Rica's large-scale paper and pulp industry
The Caribbean Coast of Middle America is:
part of the Rimland
The most important crop raised in Cuba before the fall of the Soviet Union was:
sugarcane
Trinidad's colonial heritage is French.
FALSE
Mainland Middle America's tropical location and climates are ameliorated by elevation and its resultant vertical zoning of natural environments.
TRUE
The longitude of the Panama Canal's Caribbean (Atlantic) outlet is farther west than the longitude of the waterway's Pacific Ocean outlet.
TRUE
The Aztec civilization developed in a lowland environment.
FALSE
Middle America's largest country today in terms of both area and population is:
Mexico
The archipelago to the north of Cuba that was formerly a British dependency is called the:
Bahamas
Central America's poorest country is:
Nicaragua
This country fought a civil war from 1980-1992 in which 75,000 persons died. The United States supported the government, while Nicaragua supported the Marxist rebels:
El Salvador
The current population of Mexico is ________ million.
111
Cuba's population has a black majority.
False
Due to an agreement reached between the United States and Panama in 1977, there is no longer any U.S. military presence in the now-former Canal Zone.
TRUE
Costa Rica is a U.S. enemy that is a haven for communist insurgencies throughout Middle and South America.
FALSE
In the 1980s, Costa Rica was the scene of Central America's most hotly contested civil war.
FALSE
"Latin" America is a term that refers only to the geographic area constituted by the island and mainland portions of Middle America.
FALSE
In which country did a successful slave rebellion take place?
Haiti
Maquiladoras are large communal farms in northern Mexico near the U.S. border.
FALSE
The tierra templada environmental zone is situated at a higher elevation than the tierra fría zone.
FALSE
he rebellion in Chiapas was designed to occur at the same time as:
the launching of NAFTA
The Mayan and Aztec civilizations were both part of the Mesoamerican culture hearth.
TRUE
An industry whose success is a mixed blessing for the Caribbean region is:
tourism
The Sandinistas ruled over Costa Rica.
FALSE
The island-nations of Middle America have become so advanced that poverty is just about unknown.
FALSE
Which of the following countries was formerly known as British Honduras?
Belize
Mainland Middle America's tropical location and climates are ameliorated by elevation and its resultant vertical zoning of natural environments.
TRUE
El Salvador's population is quite homogeneous, with about 90% being mestizo.
TRUE
Which of the following Caribbean republics was affected by French culture?
Haiti
Since 1950, over 80% of Central America's forests have been decimated.
TRUE
The Switzerland of Central America, the region's oldest democratic republic, is:
Costa Rica
Middle America's largest city is:
Mexico City
Section 2
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The language of the Inca state, still spoken in parts of South America, is known as:
Quechua
The tierra templada environmental zone is situated at a higher elevation than the tierra fría zone.
FALSE
To which country did Panama belong before its 1903 United States-supported revolution achieved independence?
Colombia
Despite its limited agricultural potential, Guatemalans are moving to a lowland area in the north of the country known as:
Petén
The Mayan civilization arose in the highland areas of Mexico.
FALSE
The island-nations of Middle America have become so advanced that poverty is just about unknown.
FALSW
Which of the following countries is located within the culture hearth known as Mesoamerica?
Guatemala
Central America, as defined by geographers, is:
a region within Middle America lying between Mexico and Colombia
The only remaining gap in the Pan American Highway is in:
Panama
Costa Rica is a U.S. enemy that is a haven for communist insurgencies throughout Middle and South America.
FALSE
Guadeloupe is a dependency of:
France
In 1982 Argentina fought a war with Britain over:
the Falkland Islands
Which of the following countries does not have a common border with Guatemala?
Nicaragua
Costa Rica is Middle America's oldest democracy.
TRUE
The Switzerland of Central America, the region's oldest democratic republic, is:
Costa Rica
Maquiladoras are large communal farms in northern Mexico near the U.S. border.
FALSE
A maquiladora
a foreign-owned factory in northern and southern Mexico and Central America that assembles duty-free goods
The Mayan and Aztec civilizations were both part of the Mesoamerican culture hearth
TRUE
The Middle American realm has a land bridge.
TRUE
Which island is the Caribbean's leading bauxite producer?
Jamaica
The disamenity sector of the Latin American city model includes:
slum areas known as barrios or favelas
The Caribbean islands today constitute the most densely populated portion of the Americas.
TRUE
Since 1950, over 80% of Central America's forests have been decimated.
TRUE
Which of the following is not a major cause of tropical deforestation in Central America?
Costa Rica's large-scale paper and pulp industry
The Yucatán Peninsula protrudes into the Pacific Ocean.
FALSE
The idealized Spanish town in Mesoamerica had:
all of the above
The hacienda of the Mainland is basically similar to the plantation of the Rimland.
FALSE
Which of the following countries was formerly known as British Honduras?
Belize
The Caribbean Coast of Middle America is
part of the Rimland
Mexico's leading oil-producing zone is located along its southern Pacific coast.
FALSE
The Caribbean Coast of Middle America is:
part of the Rimland
Paraguay is South America's only landlocked country.
FALSE
The archipelago to the north of Cuba that was formerly a British dependency is called the:
Bahamas
Which of the following countries does not have a common border with Guatemala?
Nicaragua
The longitude of the Panama Canal's Caribbean (Atlantic) outlet is farther west than the longitude of the waterway's Pacific Ocean outlet.
TRUE
Which of the following is located in the Greater Antilles?
Correct
Trinidad is one of the Greater Antilles.
FALSE
A maquiladora is:
a foreign-owned factory in northern and southern Mexico and Central America that assembles duty-free goods
Which country has been independent for more than 200 years?
Haiti
Which of the following countries is located within the culture hearth known as Mesoamerica?
Guatemala
A mulatto is a person of mixed African and Amerindian ancestry.
FALSE
Which country has been independent for more than 200 years?
Haiti
The capital of Nicaragua, located on the mountainous Pacific side of the country, is:
Managua
About 90% of Chile's population is concentrated in the country's northern region around the city of Atacama.
FALSE
The hacienda form of land tenure was dominant in Middle America's Rimland.
false
More than one million Puerto Ricans have migrated to:
New York
During their period of colonial domination, the Spanish forced much of Mexico's Amerindian population to relocate to urban settlements.
TRUE
Communally-owned farms in Mexico are called ejidos.
TRUE
The archipelago to the north of Cuba that was formerly a British dependency is called the:
Bahamas
More than three-quarters of the inhabitants of the Caribbean islands live in urban areas.
FALSE
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After independence in 1975, many people in Suriname emigrated to the Netherlands.
TRUE
Correct Montevideo and Paraguay
FALSE
The Itaipu Dam represents the best possible hope for the development of Brazil's Northeast.
FALSE
Bolivia is not disadvantaged by being landlocked because it has excellent river connections to both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
FALSE
Unlike the Caribbean and North America, Brazil never had a major influx of Africans, so the black component in the population today is negligible.
FALSE
Which of the following countries does not contain a portion of the Amazon Basin?
Chile
Chile's copper deposits are located closest to which of the following areas:
Correct the Atacama Desert
The desert in the north of Chile is the:
Atacama
The Brazilian area that is the world's leading producer of orange juice concentrate is:
São Paulo State
Brazil exports large quantities of coffee, orange juice concentrate, and soybeans.
TRUE
Uruguay's major farming region lies in the immediate hinterland of the capital, Santiago.
FALSE
On the Peru-Bolivia boundary lies Lake Titicaca, the Earth's highest large lake.
TRUE
Guyana and Suriname have substantial South Asian Indian population sectors.
TRUE
The gap between rich and poor in South America is narrowing.
FALSE
The cerrado is:
a booming zone of soybean production in Brazil's Interior subregion
Which of the following is false?
The Spanish invested significantly in their South American colonies.
Middle Chile is a rugged, fjorded region characterized by extreme aridity.
FALSE
In Ecuador, a regional split has occurred between:
Guayaquil and Quito
The "Triple Frontier" is where which of the following three countries come together?
Correct Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil
The birth rate in Brazil over the past decade has:
declined
A growth pole is a location where a set of activities, given a start, will expand and generate widening ripples of development in the surrounding area.
TRUE
Which of the following countries does not have a common border with Bolivia?
Colombia
Which of the following countries has the most compact territorial shape?
Uruguay
Brazil has common borders with every South American country except Chile and Ecuador.
TRUE
Iquitos is Bolivia's "Atlantic port."
FALSE
The dominant economic activity in Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo Lowland is:
Correct coffee farming
The Peru (Humboldt) Current is:
a cool offshore ocean current conducive to commercial fishing that flows parallel to the Peruvian coastline
Unlike Peru's coast, Ecuador's coastland consists of:
Correct fertile coastal plains
The Spanish invested significantly in their South American colonies.
FALSE
The slums of South America's large cities are known as:
Correct favelas or barrios
The country of Guyana:
was formerly a British colony before independence in 1966
The Zone of Maturity in the South American city contains the best housing outside the spine.
TRUE
The leading agricultural activity of the Pampa region is the production of:
cattle
Brazil is a federal state; its largest States lie in the east and northeast.
FALSE
The gap between rich and poor in South America is narrowing.
FALSE
The Brazilian area that is the world's leading producer of orange juice concentrate is:
Correct São Paulo State
A growth pole is:
a location where a set of activities, given a start, will grow, setting off ripples of development in a surrounding area
Which of the following statements is false?
Correct Brazil's population is one of the fastest growing in the developing world.
The control center of the Incan Empire was:
Cuzco
Which landlocked South American country stands to benefit most from the Hidrovia waterway project?
Paraguay
The "Triple Frontier" is where which of the following three countries come together?
Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil
The Incas were true colonizers who contributed much of their culture to the areas they occupied.
TRUE
Venezuela and Colombia as compared with the Guianas have:
been more successful in replacing the plantation economy
Fazendas are:
Correct coffee plantations
Most of Argentina's population is clustered in the:
Pampas
The slums of South America's large cities are known as:
favelas or barrios
The sertão is in Brazil's Northeast.
TRUE
Lima, the capital of Peru, is located in one of the most populous basins of the Andes.
FALSE
The dominant economic activity in Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo Lowland is:
coffee farming
The final stage in the evolution of an insurgent state, according to McColl, is the stage of:
secession
Section 4
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The birth rate in Brazil over the past decade has:
declined
The language of the Inca state, still spoken in parts of South America, is known as
Quechua
The leading agricultural activity of the Pampa region is the production of:
cattle
The best example of an elongated state in South America, and probably the world, is:
Chile
Lima, the capital of Andes-dominated Peru, is a city that was not taken over from indigenous peoples, but was founded by the Spanish.
TRUE
Correct The Spanish invested significantly in their South American colonies.
FALSE
The sertão is in Brazil's Northeast.
TRUE
Brazil is the South American country that exhibits the widest income gap.
TRUE
The country of Guyana:
Correct was formerly a British colony before independence in 1966
The dry inland back country in Brazil's Northeast is known as the:
sertão
Belo Horizonte is a major metallurgical center in Brazil's Southeast.
TRUE
Argentina's dominant city is:
Correct Buenos Aires
Bolivia is not disadvantaged by being landlocked because it has excellent river connections to both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
FALSE
Ecuador is the poorest country in South America.
FALSE
Brasília may be called a core area capital.
FALSE
South America's population distribution may be characterized as peripheral.
TRUE
Which of the following countries does not contain a portion of the Amazon Basin?
Chile
Which of the following countries is landlocked?
Which of the following countries is landlocked?
A growth pole is:
Correct a location where a set of activities, given a start, will grow, setting off ripples of development in a surrounding area
Brazil contains the largest Japanese community outside Japan.
FALSE
The most populous Brazilian State is:
Correct São Paulo
The largest country in terms of landmass in South America is:
Brazil
The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 stipulated that a north-south boundary was to be drawn separating the South American territories of ____________________.
Correct Spain and Portugal
In 1982 Argentina fought a war with Britain over:
Correct the Falkland Islands
The Itaipu Dam represents the best possible hope for the development of Brazil's Northeast.
FALSE
Volta Redonda is most closely identified with Brazil's:
Correct iron and steel manufacturing activities
The Peru (Humboldt) Current is:
Correct a cool offshore ocean current conducive to commercial fishing that flows parallel to the Peruvian coastline
About 90% of Chile's population is concentrated in the country's northern region around the city of Atacama.
FALSE
The Brazilian subregion with the greatest diversity in its European population is the:
South
In Ecuador, a regional split has occurred between:
Correct Guayaquil and Quito
The cerrado is:
Correct a booming zone of soybean production in Brazil's Interior subregion
After independence in 1975, many people in Suriname emigrated to the Netherlands.
TRUE
The Zone of Maturity in the South American city contains the best housing outside the spine.
TRUE
The slums and poverty-stricken neighborhoods of the Latin American city occupy the outer urban ring as well as the least desirable sectors leading away from city center.
TRUE
Brazil attained independence from Portugal about 100 years after the rest of South America gained its independence from Spain.
FALSE
The Incas were true colonizers who contributed much of their culture to the areas they occupied.
TRUE
Brazil's Polonoroeste Plan has called for settlement near the border with
Bolivia
A growth pole is a location where a set of activities, given a start, will expand and generate widening ripples of development in the surrounding area.
TRUE
Colombia's coffee growing areas are most often associated with the:
Correct tierra templada climate zone
Iquitos is Bolivia's "Atlantic port."
FALSE
Venezuela and Colombia as compared with the Guianas have:
Correct been more successful in replacing the plantation economy
A moderating influence on west-central Bolivia's climate is:
Correct Lake Titicaca
The informal sector of the economy includes:
Correct unlicensed sellers of homemade goods
Which of the following countries is not a member of the Mercosur trading bloc?
Colombia
Guyana and Suriname have substantial South Asian Indian population sectors.
TRUE
Which South American country was most transformed by the forced in-migration of Africans in bondage?
Brazil
Brazil's automobile industry is based in the São Paulo area.
TRUE
Brazil's Northeast:
Correct was Brazil's source area: its early plantation economy first developed here
The desert in the north of Chile is the:
Atacama
Argentina's Pampa region contains the vast majority of the country's population.
TRUE
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In the Latin American city model, the elite residential sector contains the:
Correct commercial/industrial spine
The major river of Venezuela's iron-rich eastern region is the:
Orinoco
]Uruguay's major farming region lies in the immediate hinterland of the capital, Santiago.
FALSE
The upper basin of the Niger River has been an area of far greater cultural development over time than its coastal delta region.
TRUE
The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 stipulated that a north-south boundary was to be drawn separating the South American territories of ____________________.
Correct Spain and Portugal
Almost ____ percent of South Americans live in urban areas.
80
Only Russia is larger in territory than Brazil.
FALSE
Brazil's Polonoroeste Plan has called for settlement near the border with:
Bolivia
Argentina is the second largest country in South America in both area and population.
FALSE
Which of the following countries is the home of the Shona and Ndebele tribes where whites have been expelled by government-backed squatters seeking their land?
Zimbabwe
Rwanda and Burundi:
Correct are Africa's most densely populated countries
Tanzania is East Africa's largest country in territorial as well as demographic terms, but it never had minorities as large as those in Kenya or Uganda.
TRUE
Which of the following countries is not located in East Africa?
Nigeria
Paraguay is the most Amerindianized country in South America.
TRUE
This West African country borders Liberia, is a former French colony, and built a Roman Catholic basilica in Yamoussoukro to rival St. Peter's in Rome:
Correct Ivory Coast
Brazil's population is one of the fastest growing in the developing world.
FALSE
Which of the following countries contains a population whose ethnicity is dominated by Amerindian ancestry?
Paraguay
Ghana was formerly known as the Gold Coast.
TRUE
The capital of Brazil is:
Brasília
The richest 20% of the South American population control _____ of the realm's wealth.
70
The country in Equatorial Africa that had a border dispute with Nigeria over an oil-rich area is:
Cameroon
Cabinda is a
exclave of Angola
Rubber production has had the greatest impact on which Brazilian subregion?
the north
As in the Netherlands, Bolivia's capital city functions are divided between two administrative headquarters.
TRUE
The Islamic Front is most correctly located within the African Transition Zone.
TRUE
Which landlocked South American country stands to benefit most from the Hidrovia waterway project?
Paraguay
The Islamic Front is located on the northern fringes of the Sahara.
false
Two countries which were originally part of German East Africa, but were given to the Belgians after World War I are:
Correct Rwanda and Burundi
The major difference between an endemic and a pandemic disease is that:
Correct a pandemic disease moves through the population of a large area of the world, whereas an endemic disease is simply present, affecting the lives of millions of people in a negative way
Which of the following countries is not located in Equatorial Africa?
ivory coast
Africa's distributions of climate and vegetation are almost symmetrical about the equator.
TRUE
The South is Brazil's most "European" region, where European languages other than Portuguese still remain in use.
TRUE
The country in Equatorial Africa with significant oil supplies and the only coastal capital is:
Gabon
Which of the following associations is incorrect?
Correct Montevideo and Paraguay
Which of the following countries is located in the Horn of Africa?
Ethiopia
Before independence, the modern state of The Congo was a colony of:
Belgium
The last country to give up its African colonies was:
South Africa
The country of Lesotho is completely encircled by South Africa.
TRUE
Zambia, Sierra Leone, and Malawi were all British colonies.
TRUE
The cerrado is one of the world's most promising areas of agricultural development.
TRUE
The current pattern of settlement of the Brazilian North:
Correct results in the widespread establishment of low-grade land use
Senegal was the anchor of France's West African empire.
TRUE
Which of the following countries is not located in Southern Africa?
Cameroon
The core area of Zimbabwe is the mineral-rich Great Dyke.
TRUE
Senegal is a country in the Horn of Africa.
FALSE
Which of the following countries is located in the Bulge of Africa?
Senegal
The West African savanna states benefited from complementarity between the peoples of the forests and the peoples of the dry lands to the north.
TRUE
The Zone of Maturity in the South American city contains the best housing outside the spine.
TRUE
The Boer War took place in:
Correct South Africa
Guayaquil is the capital of Ecuador.
FALSE
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