Exam 4: The South American Realm

Which of the following cities is NOT the largest urban center in its country?

Brazil's most populous city is ___.

Bolivia is sharply divided ethnically between its two majority populations,indigenous and __________.

Argentina's Pampa subregion contains the vast majority of the country's population.

Belo Horizonte is a major metallurgical center in Brazil's Southeast subregion.

The slums and poorest neighborhoods in the "Latin" American City model occupy the outer urban ring as well as the least desirable sectors leading away from city center.

Venezuela and Colombia,compared to the Guianas,have ____________.

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.

The part of South America where the dominant ethnic group is European is the ____.

Brazil has common borders with every South American country except Chile and Ecuador.

On the world map,only Russia is larger in territory than Brazil.

Copper and nitrates are two resources that strongly shaped the economic development of ___ during the past century.

Racial mixing has occurred more extensively in Brazil than in Argentina.

The desert in the north of Chile is named the _______________.

____________ are to Brazil what barrios are to Spanish-speaking South America.

Paraguay has South America's highest proportion of indigenous citizens in its national population.

Lima,the capital of Peru,is a city that was not taken over from indigenous peoples but was founded by the Spanish.