Which country in south america has long attracted bolivian and paraguayan laborers?

Chapter 4 Study Guide

1) What are the boundaries of Latin America?

2) How many residents does a city need in its metropolitan area to qualify as a megacity?

3) What is the greatest threat to biodiversity in Latin America?

4) Over the last 40 years, approximately what percentage of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest has been destroyed?

5) Which Latin American country is most closely associated with deforestation?

6) What percentage of the world's plant and animal species are found in the Amazon rainforest?

7) What is grassification?

8) What city in Latin America was designed to be, and is an example of a sustainable city?

9) What is the source of approximately 70 percent of Mexico City's water?

10) What is the major environmental problems is associated with Mexico City and Santiago?

11) What is the name of the mountain chain that extends the length of South America's west coast?

12) What is the most distinctive characteristic of the Amazon River?

13) How long are the Andes Mountains?

14) What are the two largest cities in Latin America?

15) Historically, these places have been underused as areas of settlement in Latin America, especially compared to settlement patterns in other regions.

16) Where are the people of Latin America concentrated?

17) What material(s) provided the initial wealth of many countries in the Andes Mountains?

18) What is El Niño?

19) What country of Latin America has the region's largest population?

20) What is urban primacy?

21) Urban primacy occurs when

22) In the Latin American city model, what land use is located along the "spine"?

23) What is the major reason for the preference for urban life in Latin America?

24) A system wherein peasants farm small plots of land for their own subsistence is referred to as

25) In Latin America, what did agrarian reform accomplish?

26) Which of the following was NOT a major reason for the rural-to-urban migration in Latin America?

27) Throughout most of the 20th century, Latin America experienced ________ population growth rates.

28) Which country in Latin America sends the largest number of legal immigrants to the United States?

29) What is a mestizo?

30) Why did Japanese people migrate to Latin America?

31) Which country in South America has long attracted Bolivian and Paraguayan laborers?

32) What evidence demonstrates the resilience of the Indian cultures in Latin America?

33) What factor was most crucial to the survival of the remaining indigenous people of Latin America?

34) Which Amerindian group lived in the Valley of Mexico, the site of modern day Mexico City?

35) After a century-and-a-half of colonization, what was the size of the indigenous population of Latin America?

36) What is the ethnicity of the majority of people in Latin America?

37) What language is the second-most common in Latin America?

38) Historically, what has been the policy of most countries regarding Indian languages in Latin America?

39) Which of the following is an example of syncretic religion in Latin America?

41) Which European country had a territorial conflict with Argentina over the Falkland Islands in the early 1980s?

42) When the countries of Latin America regained their independence, who were the leaders?

43) What trade block is the most important one in Latin America?

44) Which of the following countries is NOT a member of the North American Free Trade Agreement?

45) What are Colombia's FARC and ELN?

46) Approximately how many people today are employed in maquiladoras in Mexico?

47) In recent years, what kind of economic activity has Costa Rica been attracting?

48) By what name do we know the Mexican assembly plants that line the border between Mexico and the United States?

49) With respect to the success of maquiladoras, which of the following is NOT one of Mexico's competitive advantages?

50) Why did the number of people employed in Mexican maquiladoras begin to drop after 2001?

51) What Latin American country is the world leader in coffee production?

52) What is dollarization?

53) What is dependency theory?

54) What is import substitution?