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39 Cards in this Set
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Define guerrilla. In which country do guerillas play a major role
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one who fights as part of an armed band and takes part in sporadic warfare
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Define slash and burn farming
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forests are cut and burned to clear land for planting
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What product has given Colombia international recognition
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Coffee
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How many independent countries are in the Caribbean South American region
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5
Colombia Venezula French Guyana Suriname Guyana |
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In what Caribbean country do females live the longest?
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Colombin
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Name the only South America country whith coastlines on both the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean
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Colombia
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Name the world's tallest waterfall in this region
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Angel Falls
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90% of what mineral comes from Colombia
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emeralds
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Of the five elevation zones in the Andes, in which one is there little difference between summer and winter temperatures
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Tierra helada (it is permanently snow covered)
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Of what ethnic descent are more than half of Guyana's population?
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South Asian descent
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Venezuela's national pride is expressed in a statue. Describe the statue
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A European man, an African man, and a Native American woman
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What are Colombia's two major land forms?
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Andes Mountains and the Amazon Basin
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What are Guyana's main crops?
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rice and sugar cane
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What are the main crops found on the small family farm in Venezuela
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sugar cane and coffee
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What capital city is approximately 8, 563 feet above sea level
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Bogota, Colombia
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What is much of Colombia's violence connected to?
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illegal drug trade
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What is one of COlombia's newest and most profitable industry?
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flower farming
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What provides Venezuela's chief source of wealth?
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minerals
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What South America country is a former Dutch colony with Africans, mulattos, Chinese, Indoesians, and South Asians?
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Suriname
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What South American count;ry sends three representatives to the national assembly in Paris, France?
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French Guiana
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Where are most of the region's agricultural areas found?
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in Venezuela near the Caribbean shore
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Argentina has one of the world's major agricultural regions. What is it called?
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pampas
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Brazil held the distinction of being the America's first large
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sugar colony
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Guarani is spoken by 95% of the people of this country
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Paraguay
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In the 1970s, a war broke out between Argentina and Great Britain. Over what did the two nations fight?
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possession of the Falkland Islands
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Name a landlocked country in the region. HOw might a landlocked country be at a disadvantage compared to other countries?
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Paraguay..it has no water entrance to import or export goods and must rely on neighboring countries to allow them to cross their land
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Argentina's four environmental regions
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Andes Mountains, Chaco, Pampas, and Patogoma
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Name the Amazon region's largest city
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Manaus
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Nearly 80% of all Brazilians live in which of the four regions of the country?
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Southeast
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Of the countries in the region, which one comes closest to matching the literacy rate of the United States?
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Uruguay
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Some are predicting that the rain forest will disappear within the next __ years?
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50
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Some are predicting that the rain forest will disappear within the next __ years?
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50
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What are Argentine cowboys called?
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gauchos
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What are the two buffer states in South America and why are they called that name?
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Uruguay and Paraguay because they are small countries separating two larger competing countries
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What county has a border with every South American country except CHile and Ecuador?
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Brazil
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What county in the region has a large number of Italianm, German, and Japanese immigrants
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unknown
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What is the nation of Brazil named after and what does it provide?
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a tree called the "paubasil" and it provides a purple red dye
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What two countries in the region are the most properous of the world's developing ocuntries.
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San Paulo and Rio De Janeiro
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Which of Brazil's four regions is Brazil's poorest?
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Northeast
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