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What is the name of the mountain range along the western coast of South America?
Andes Mountains
What is the name of ocean and water patterns that affect the Pacific coast?
El Nino
What is the world's largest river system that flows eastward across northern Brazil?
The Amazon River
What helps make most of the Caribbean and South America a rich agricultural region???
Good soil and a moderate climate
The Amazon flows into what major body of water?
The Atlantic Ocean
What are three things the Amazon Rain Forest provides?
food, wood, rubber, and plants for medicine
True or False. As elevation increases, the air becomes warmer.
False
What product does Chile export more of than any other country in the world?
copper
The clearing of trees is called ____?
deforestation
What is the largest urban city in South America?
Sao Paulo
Who were the first Europeans to arrive in Brazil?
Portuguese explorers
In the late 1600s and early 1700s, people discovered what in southeast Brazil?
gold and precious gems
What was unique about Brazil's independence from Portugal?
They gained independence without a fight.
What is the major religion of Brazil?
Roman Catholicism
Give two effects of deforestation in the Amazon.
Destroys large areas of the rain forest, threatens the survival of many plants, animals, & the ecosystem, & creates tensions among the Brazilian Indians, miners
What is Brazil's official language?
Portuguese
