Exam 3: Middle and South America

Briefly describe the four temperature-altitude zones of the Middle/South America region.

What Brazilian city has successfully organized its growth around integrated mass transport?

In recent years China has begun interest in Brazil and investing in which industry?

Compared to other world regions,Middle and South America exhibit a narrow gap between the rich and poor.

In what way was the Spanish conquest of the Incas similar to its conquest of the Aztecs?

Before closing up its operations in Ecuador,Texaco sealed all its open pits to minimize environmental damage to the country.

All of the following are goals of NAFTA except:

Which country has been the most active foreign power in the region?

Which country does NOT have a movement with goals similar to the MST?

Chiapas is a state of __________.

Unlike Canada and the United States,Middle and South America has had a long colonial history in which most of the countries were at one time under Spanish rule.

What is the most rapidly growing segment of the global travel and tourism industry?

The selling of formerly government-owned industries to individual investors is known as:

What was the primary cause of widespread death among the Native American population after the arrival of Europeans?

Which of the following describes the typical employment fortunes of male migrants to cities?

What is the name given to the set of values that governs the activities and movements of females in Middle and South America?

Which of the following countries ranks fifth in the world in terms of total number of Internet users?

Mountains block Pacific rains from reaching the Caribbean side of Middle/South America.

Mexico City is an example of a primate city.

The indigenous population of Mexico were the: