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Unit 5 Review

Quiz by Kelly Keeler

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  • Q1
    The _____ are grassy, treeless areas used for grazing and farming, located in Colombia and Venezuela.
    Atacamas
    Cerrados
    Pampas
    Llanos
    30s
  • Q2
    In Argentina + Uruguay, the _____ are grasslands that contain rich soil.
    Llanos
    Gauchos
    Pampas
    Cerrados
    30s
  • Q3
    The _____ are prominent in the Pampas and are similar to cowboys.
    Atacamas
    Gauchos
    Orinocos
    Paranas
    30s
  • Q4
    The _____ Mountains are part of a chain of mountain ranges that run through western North, Central, and South America.
    Patgonian
    Andes
    Alps
    Orinoco
    30s
  • Q5
    Which of the following nations is not one of the Greater Antilles?
    Hispaniola
    Barbados
    Jamaica
    Cuba
    30s
  • Q6
    Which of the following characteristics about the Amazon Rain Forest is inaccurate?
    It is home to over 2500 varieties of trees.
    It is mainly located in Argentina
    It covers more than 2 million square miles
    It is the largest rain forest in the world
    30s
  • Q7
    Which of the following statements is not true of the Amazon River?
    It is roughly 2,000 miles long
    It provides a large amount of hydroelectric power to Brazil.
    It is fed by more than 1000 tributaries.
    it carries more water to the ocean than any other river in the world.
    30s
  • Q8
    Slash + Burn farming is best described as a process where people _____.
    burn the contents of the land to make way for urban development.
    clear large sections of land for farming.
    burn the contents of the land to make way for urban development .
    cut down trees + brush and burn it causing the rain forest to shrink.
    30s
  • Q9
    The Aztec people believed Hernando Cortez was their god, _____, because they believed that one day their god would cross the water and return to them.
    Teotihucan
    Montezum
    Tenchtitlan
    Quetzalcoatl
    30s
  • Q10
    Which of the following is not a pull factor for people of Latin America to leave the interior and move to the cities?
    Lack of educational opportunities
    Lack of medical care
    Lack of land for farming
    Lack of employment opportunities
    30s
  • Q11
    The farming technique where people cut horizontal fields into mountainsides or mountain slopes is called
    leveled farming
    stepped farming
    slash + burn farming
    terraced farming
    30s
  • Q12
    The capital of the Aztec empire was
    Cuzco
    Tenochtitlan
    Uxmal
    Palenque
    30s
  • Q13
    The fall of the Aztec empire can be be described by which statement?
    Cortez arrived and the natives thought he was a god, which allowed him to conquer the empire.
    de Soto convinced rival native tribes to fight the Aztecs causing them to weaken,
    Columbus brought European diseases to the natives, causing the deaths of thousands.
    Pizarro arrived in 1533 and captured the emperor, ending the empire.
    30s
  • Q14
    A person who is of native + Spanish descent is considered a
    Mulatto
    Maltese
    Metis
    Mestizo
    30s
  • Q15
    A maquiladora is a{n}
    government that regulates commerce between NAFTA nations.
    migrant worker who works in a factory.
    factory that assembles imported materials into finished products that are exported the the United States.
    economic policy that deals with fair treatment of workers in factories of Mexico.
    30s

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