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World Geography

Exam 1: Latin America

Question	Answer
mountain range on east coast of Mexico	Sierra Madre Oriental
mountain range on west coast of Mexico	Sierra Madre Occidental
East	orient
West	occident
plateau in central Mexico	Central Mesa
30" of precipitation	Central Mesa
< 30 " rainfall will result in	livestock ranching/grazing
mountain range in southern Mexico	Sierra Madre del Sur
largest concentration of pure-blooded Native American descent	Sierra Madre del Sur
1 of 31 Mexican states	Chiapas
trade alliance between Mexico, United States, and Canada	NAFTA
ability to govern themselves	autonomy
mountains influence climate	orographic effect
windward slope casts dry, arid shadow on leeward slope	rain shadow
mountain range running through Central America	Central American Mountains
mountain range running through South America/ Chile	Andes
longest mountain range in the world	Andes
tallest peak in Western hemisphere	Mount Aconcagua
continents were once all together and are moving apart; Pangea	theory of continental drift
all of Earth's features are moving, not just the continents	plate tectonics
developed the theory of continental drift/plate tectonics	Alfred Wegener
what the Andes were created by	subduction
highlands in northern South America	Guiana Highlands
ore to get aluminum; big income	bauxite
white powder from bauxite	alumina
energy expensive process	electrolysis
shiny, metallic, metal	aluminum
more efficient than to refine and make new aluminum	aluminum recycling
orient, occident, cordillera	Sierra Madre Oriental and Sierra Madre Occidental
a mountain range that runs parallel to a coastline	cordillera
livestock ranching/grazing, 30 inches of precipitation	Central Mesa
autonomy, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Chiapas	Sierra Madre del Sur
orographic effect, rain shadow	Central American Mountains
theory of continental drift/plate tectonics, Mount Aconcagua, Alfred Wegener	Andes
bauxite, alumina, aluminum, electrolysis, recycling	Guiana Highlands
lava flows, geographic factors associated with coffee production	Brazilian Highlands
highlands located on the east coast of Brazil	Brazilian Highlands
crack in crust -> _________ -> cools ad creates new land (very fertile soil)	lava flows
Brazilian Highlands are perfect for; Brazil is world leader in production	coffee
conditions necessary for coffee	rich volcanic soils, tropical location, slightly higher elevation
physiographic boundary	Rio Grande
river that is the boundary between Mexico and the United States	Rio Grande
physical features used as political boundaries	physiographic boundary
why rivers as boundary can be problematic	can change course
drainage basin	Amazon River
Andes in Peru -> Brazil -> Atlantic Ocean	Amazon River
4,00 miles long	Amazon River
2nd largest in the world, most massive	Amazon River
area of land that rivers and their tributaries drain into	drainage basin
huge freshwater resource in South America	Amazon River
too big to use for hydroelectricity	Amazon River
hydroelectricity, estuary, Itaipu Dam, Rio de la Plata	Parana- Paraguay River System
one of the largest hydroelectric dams in the world, on the international boundaries of Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay)	Itaipu Dam
coastlines divets caused by water flows	estuary
estuary formed by the Parana-Paraguay River System	Rio de la Plata
Paraguay and Brazil -> Atlantic	Parana-Paraguay River System
Maya civilization, Aztec civilization, urban geography, primate city, rural-to-urban migration, push factors, pull factors, remittances, PEMEX, Lake Texcoco, Tenochtitlan, Mexico City, Bay of Campeche	Mexico
900 B.C.- 900 B.C.E.	Mayans
natives located in the Yucatan peninsula	Mayans
pyramid bigger than any in Egypt	Uxmal
natives that studied the concept of zero, mathematics, architecture, astronomy, and the calendar	Mayans
in decline when the Spaniards arrived	Mayans
cactus growing out of rock with eagle on top holding rattlesnake	Aztecs
where Aztec symbol was found	Lake Texcoco
capital city of Aztecs	Tenochtitlan
modern day Mexico City	Tenochtitlan
one of the largest urban concentrations in the world; 22 million people; political capital; primate city	Mexico City
disproportionately large in population and embodies the national character of a country	primate city
most economically powerful; history tied to importance; only one in country	primate city
study of geography of cities	urban geography
leaving agriculture and moving to cities	rural-to-urban migration
causes decision to leave a place	push factors
causes decision to move to a place	pull factors
control over oil revenue in Mexico	PEMEX
money sent back to families by immigrants in other countries	remittances
Mexico's economy	oil, migration, tourism
British Empire, barrier reef	Belize
_________ stole British Honduras from Guatemala	British Empire
2nd largest ______ off coast of Belize	barrier reef
language of Belize	English
Monroe Doctrine, banana republic	Guatemala
James Monroe's foreign policy;protection of Western hemisphere	Monroe Doctrine
series of governments that were tied to United States interests; more interested in foreign business rather than native peoples	banana republic
population density, pressure of overpopulation, demographic response	El Salvador
one of most densely populated countries in the world	El Salvador
1970s-1980s: civil war was a __________; people trying to find a way to correct things	demographic response
land is scarce, a lot of people trying to live off the land	pressure of overpopulation
plentiful natural resources: gold, oil, natural gas, gemstones	Colombia
a wide variety of environments thanks to the Andes and the tropical lowlands in the southeast that allow wide varieties of crops to be grown, coupled with a pure location ideal for trade	Colombia
rebel groups and the drug trade	Colombia
the major drug here is cocaine, a stimulant extracted from the leaves of the coca plant	Colombia
the major processing point for extracting the cocaine from the coca	Colombia
most dangerous country in the world in the 1980s	Colombia
cocaine is a big issue	Colombia
possesses the 2nd largest proven reserves of oil in the Western Hemisphere	Venezuela
1) it is known to exist; and 2) it is economically feasible to extract, meaning we have the technology to get to it AND we will make a profit from it	proven reserve
Venezuela is too dependent on	oil
90% of Venezuela's income	oil
“putting all your eggs in one basket”	monoeconomic state
Venezuela is a member of; a group of 12 countries that hold a significant percentage of the world’s oil reserves, and try to control the price by controlling the supply available on the market	OPEC
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries	OPEC
has the highest percentage of people of pure-blooded European descent in all of Latin America, with nearly 88% of the population having European ancestry.	Uruguay
cornerstone of Uruguay's economy	agriculture
Uruguay has very rich _________	soils
a major producer of beef and wheat	Argentina
northern grasslands in Argentina where beef and wheat are produced	Pampas
group of islands Argentina has a dispute with the United Kingdom over	Falkland Islands
type of government in Argentina today	democracy
what is thought the Falkland Islands possess	oil and natural gas
study of shapes of political units like countries	territorial morphology
Chile is classified as; length roughly 6 x's their width	elongated state
more border to defend, communication and transportation more costly	disadvantages of elongated state
access to resources that would not be in the territory w/ other shapes and increased chance of different environments w/ different potential	advantages of elongated state
what Chile's northern third is dominated by	Atacama desert
one of the driest places on the planet	Atacama Desert
Chile's possession of world's largest reserves of two mineral sources, which are	copper and nitrates
considered for membership for NAFTA	Chile
Hurricane Mitch, natural hazard, risk, vulnerability	Honduras
study of natural disasters	natural hazard
statistical probability that a particular natural disaster will occur in a particular place	risk
how natural hazards are affecting human beings	vulnerability
in 1998, 1/3 of Honduras' population became homeless and set the economy back 50 years	Hurricane Mitch
Cold War, socialism,Sandinistas, Contras, Iran-Contra Scandal, Anastasio Somoza, Ronald Reagan. Oliver North	Nicaragua
United States had military occupancy of	Nicaragua
father-son ruling duo of Nicaragua	Somoza
son that was corrupt when ruling ; had U.S. support	Anastasio Somoza
overthrew Somoza	Sandinistas
Nicaragua's national guard	Contras
Sandinistas got support from	Soviet Union
under the table help to Contras when illegalized	Iran-Contra Scandal
middle man in Iran-Contra Scandal	Oliver North
biodiversity, ecotourism	Costa Rica
Switzerland of Central America	Costa Rica
protects their wildlife and vegetation	Costa Rica
tourists go to see biodiversity	ecotourism
cheap to maintain, generates a lot of revenue, tourists will help maintain landscapes	ecotourism
one of most politically stable countries in Latin America	Costa Rica
president abolished military; small police force and defense agreements	Costa Rica
transoceanic canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Jimmy Carter, Manuel Noriega	Panama
originally part of Colombia; got independence w/ help of U.S.	Panama
shortcut from Atlantic to the Pacific	transoceanic canal
tried to build canal first but failed	Ferdinand de Lesseps
gave canal to Panama to help repair relationship w/ Latin America	Jimmy Carter
got independence from U.S. winning Spanish-American War	Cuba
led a successful rebellion against U.s.	Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro allied himself with	Soviet Union
U.S. flights over Cuba; sites equipped with nuclear missiles thought to be aimed at the United States. The United States imposed a naval blockade until the Soviet Union agreed to remove the missiles	Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba's major benefactor	Soviet Union
former British colony, sugar and bauxite	Jamaica
reggae music, Bob Marley	Jamaica
former French colony; poorest country in western hemisphere	Haiti
overpopulation, environmental degradation, high HIV/AIDS infection rates, political instability, corruption	Haiti
Haiti's neighbor	Dominican Republic
birthplace of more foreign-born baseball players than any other country	Dominican Republic
resource lottery, sugarcane, ethyl alcohol (ethanol), alcohol, Petrobras, forward capital, tropical, deforestation, favelas, plural society, soccer (futbol), Carnival, Brasilia, Amazon Basin, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo	Brazil
Portuguese	Brazil
more land in possession means better chances of having resources	resource lottery
Brazil produces	coffee, citrus, sugarcane
process into ethanol for oil	sugarcane
Brazil's energy company	Petrobras
moving capital forward to encourage growth	forward capital
the forward capital city in Brazil	Brasilia
shantytowns in Brazil	favelas
capital of Brazil	Rio de Janeiro
largest city in Brazil	Sao Paulo
where tropical deforestation takes place	Amazon Basin
rainforest chopped down to make room for agriculture and ranches	tropical deforestation
a lot of diversity (ethnic group), very little interaction amongst them	plural society
unifying factors of Brazil	soccer and Carnival
former British colony previously known as British Guiana	Guyana
Guyana is a major producer of	bauxite
former colony of the Netherlands previously known as Dutch Guiana	Suriname
Suriname has large populations of	South and Southeast Asians
still a possession of France today	French Guiana
European Space Agency’s main launching pad for satellites into outer space	French Guiana
Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana	The Guianas
War of the Triple Alliance	Paraguay
South America's bloodiest war	War of the Triple Alliance
Paraguay v. Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina	War of the Triple Alliance
has the highest % of pure-blooded Native Americans	Bolivia
La Paz and Sucre; two capital cities	Bolivia
dominant center for Spanish colonial administration in Bolivia	Sucre
eclipsed its importance post-independence for Bolivia	La Paz
Incan civilization located in	Peru
ruled and overthrown similar to Aztecs	Incans
highest lake in the world	Lake Titicaca
downward-faulted block of the Earth's crust	graben
Ecuador does not have	primate city
islands Ecuador owns	Galapagos Islands
where Charles Darwin did his studies of finches	Galapagos Islands

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