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Chapter 9 ( and) 7
Question | Answer |
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What is the SA chain of mountains called | Andes |
____are vast expanses of plains fond in the interior of Brazil | Cerrado |
What river flows through SA and is almost 4,000 miles long | Amazon River |
_____ consists of things such as sewers, transportation, electricity, and housing. | Infrastructure |
Grasslands of northern Argentina and Uruguay | Pampas |
Vast plains in Columbia and Venezula | llanos |
1,500 mile river that flows mainly through Venezulla | Orinico River |
3,000 mile river that flows through Paraguay and Argentina | Parana River |
They cover more than 2 million square miles of SA and contian many speices of trees | rain forest |
a method used to clear land for farming | slash-and-Burn |
an ancient technique for growing crops on hillside or Mt slopes | teraced farming |
Latin America reaches from the southern borders of the US down to | Tierra del Fuego |
On the south American contient the _____ are part of mountain ranges that run down the ____ coast of North Central America and SA | Andes Mt Western |
Other ranges include the _____ highlands in NE of SA | Guiana |
SA also several vast plains icluding the ____ of Colombia and Venezula | LLanos |
Other vast plains located in Argentina and Uruguay are know as the | Pampas |
SA has many long rivers includding____ river that winds through northern part of the contient , mainly in Venezula | Orinoco |
NS and SA and E of Mexico and CA are the ______ islands | Cariabbean |
The Cariabbean consits of 3 major groups | Bahamas, Grater and lesser antiles |
Political Units | Provinces |
in canada a loose political union of provinces | confedration |
a sytem where legislative and executive functions are combined in legislature called a parliament | parlimentry gov. |
canada's Native Amarican People | First Nations |
people of mixed french and native peoles descent | metis |
most french-speaking canadians live here | Quebec |
composed of Manitoba, askachewan, and Alberta | Prairie Provinces |
Canada's westernmost province | British Columbia |
Home of many of Canada'sInuit | Nunavut |