Exam 4: The South American Realm

Brazil's highly successful social program called Bolsa Família____________.

Which of the following is INCORRECT?

The Triple Frontier is located at the convergence of which three countries?

Brazil's Polonoroeste Plan has called for settlement near the border with _____________.

As in the Netherlands,Bolivia's capital city functions are divided between two administrative headquarters.

The country of ___________ contains South America's largest black population.

Rio de Janeiro is the center of Brazil's __________________.

Figure 3-16 shows that Brazil's capital city is located in its industrial heartland.

Figure 3-6 shows that this city has a population between five and ten million people:

Unlike the Caribbean and North America,Brazil never had a major influx of Africans,so the black component in its population today is minuscule.

Brasília may be called a core-area capital.

According to Figure 3-13,Buenos Aires is at approximately the same latitude as which city?

The birth rate in Brazil over the past decade has ______________.

According to Figure 3-3,African-origin ethnic groups in South America live predominantly in the:

The best example of an elongated state in South America,and probably the world,is _________.

The dominant economic activity in Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo Lowland is ___________.

South America's population distribution mostly adheres to the continent's coast.

The mouth of the Amazon River is located at approximately _____degrees latitude.

The dry inland back country in Brazil's Northeast is known as the _______________.

Given the country's sizeable revenue from oil,Venezuelans enjoy a high standard of living.