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A term South Americans use for the thick rain forest vegetation found in the eastern region meaning "forest".
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What are Selvas? (245)
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The thick, eastern, rainforest vegetation of eastern Equador.
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In southern Peru, where the eastern and western ridges of the Andes Mtns. separate forming a broad highland plain between.
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What is the Altiplano? (247)
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A high-elevation (>12,000 ft.)grassland
extending into Bolivia with few trees. |
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An unusual weather pattern involving a warming of part of the Pacific Ocean, that occurs every five to ten years and causes a decrease in fish and an increase in flooding in some areas.
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What is El Nino? (248)
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Ocean near the coast warms causing fish to flee and severe flooding from heavy contiunuous rains. It effects ocean and weather conditions worldwide.
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The use of violence as a means of political force.
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What is Terrorism? (248 )
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This problem has caused widespread poverty and corrupt government in using undemocratic methds to sway elections.
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An overthrow of the existing government by another political or military group.
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What is a military Coup ? (248)
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Bolivia became independent in 1844 by a military overthrow or __?__ of the government.
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The Spanish Colonial system of land ownership brought over by Europeans, whereby tenant farmers work part of the land from their own labor. The large estates on which tenants work.
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What is the Latifundia system? (250)
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Declining in productivity but commercial agriculture is increacing.
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After land reform, the government divided some large estates into small farms for families.
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What are Minifundios? (250)
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Mini farms not large enough to be profitable.
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A small country that separates two larger competing countries.
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What is a Buffer State? (234)
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Brazil & Argentina are more developed and larger neighbors to Uruguay and Paraguay; therefore they exert more influence and control over these smaller _______ states.
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A term referring to the loss of soil nutrients that results from always planting the same crop in a particular area.
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What is Soil Exhaustion? (236)
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Growing cotton in the southern U.S. for too many years is similar to growing coffee in South America repeatedly without crop rotation or changes.
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Northern cities of Atlantic S.A.are filled with huge slum areas called _______.
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What are Favelas? (237)
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What we call a "ghetto" in North America is referred to as a ________ in South America.
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A metropolitan area given official help to strengthen its economic development.
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What is a Growth Pole? (238)
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Ex. Manaus, the Amazon's largest city is the historic center of rubber collection and a growing industrial area. The Brazilian government encourages industrial growth in the city with special laws helping foreign investors to start up industry there.
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A substance gathered from quebracho trees of the Chaco, used to soften and preserve leather.
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What is Tannin? (240)
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Substance used in tanning leather.
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A country that is completely surrounded by land and does not have an access to the ocean.
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What is Landlocked? (242)
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Paraguay shares borders with Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. It has no coastal lands or ports and therefore it is called _____?______.
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