Chapter 9 Homework: Atlantic South America
Pages 184-199
Name ______Hr.___
9 Point Option out of 15
Section 1
1. Which four countries is part of Atlantic South America?
2. Which of these countries occupies nearly half of the continent?
3. List at least two interesting facts about the Amazon River.
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B.
4. What effect do the Andes Mountains have on storms coming from the Pacific Ocean?
5. What resources are provided by the Amazon rain forest?
Section 2
6. Which country did Brazil gain independence from in 1822?
7. What is the official language of Brazil?
8. Where does Brazil rank in the world in size (area)?
9. Where does Brazil rank in the world in population?
10. What are Brazil’s two giant cities?
Section 4
11. What is the major waterway of southern South America?
12. What country did Uruguay claim its independence from?
13. Paraguay is a landlocked country. What does this mean?
12 Point Option out of 15
Section 1
14. How big is South America’s tropical rain forest? (Our Amazing Planet)
15. Why can summer rains turn areas of the Gran Chaco into marshlands?
Section 2
16. What activities are affecting the size of the Amazon rain forest?
17. The root of which plant is used for many foods today in Brazil?
18. What inland city is the Amazon’s major port?
19. Why was the city of Brasilia, the capital of Brazil built?
Section 3
20. What are gauchos?
21. What is an important agricultural product and big part of the Argentine diet?
15 Point Option out of 15
Section 1
22. What is different about the school day in Argentina?
23. What plateaus and plains are found in Atlantic South America?
Section 2
24. What type of government does Brazil have today?
25. What is interesting about the number of Roman Catholics found in Brazil?
26. What was the former capital of Brazil?
Section 3
27. How is supper time in Argentina different than the United States?
28. Where is most of Argentina’s industry located?
29. How has the government in Argentina changed since 1983?
Section 4
30. What is the capital city of Uruguay? How many people live in or around this city?
31. What is the literacy rate of Uruguay? How does this compare to the U.S.?
32. What percent of Paraguayans are mestizos?
33. Who owns much of Paraguay’s wealth?
34. What do nearly half of Paraguay’s workers do?