GEOG Chapter 3 Exam Questions
and Answers All Correct
The slums of South America's large cities are known as ____________.
a) favelas or barrios
b) tierra urbanas
c) altiplanos
d) llanos
e) llamas - Answer-a) favelas or barrios
Figure 3-6 shows that this city has a population between five and ten million people:
a) Buenos Aires
b) São Paulo
c) Lima
d) Guayaquil
e) Caracas - Answer-c) Lima
has replaced the United States as the leading trading partner of Brazil, Chile and Peru.
a) Russia
b) Canada
c) Germany
d) Spain
e) China - Answer-
Bogotá, Colombia's capital city, is located ______________.
a) on the arid Pacific coast
b) on the Caribbean Sea at the outlet of the Magdalena River
c) in an Andean basin
d) at the intersection of three valleys in the eastern savanna zone near the Brazilian
border
e) in the llanos - Answer-c) in an Andean basin
, The dominant economic activity in Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo Lowland is
___________.
a) large-scale cattle herding
b) tourism
c) oil production
d) coffee farming
e) cocaine refining - Answer-c) oil production
Venezuela and Colombia as compared with the Guianas have ____________.
a) larger territories and smaller populations
b) larger populations and smaller territories
c) less varied physiographies
d) been more successful in replacing the plantation economy
e) fewer economic opportunities - Answer-d) been more successful in replacing the
plantation economy
The South American country that contains the northern end of the Andes is
___________.
a) Venezuela
b) Colombia
c) Panama
d) Brazil
e) Suriname - Answer-a) Venezuela
The major river of Venezuela is the _______________.
a) Rio de la Plata
b) Paraguay
c) Amazon
d) Orinoco
e) Magdalena - Answer-d) Orinoco
The country of Guyana _________________.
a) was formerly a British colony before independence in 1966
b) is also called Suriname
c) contains a population that is three-quarters European
d) is the smallest of the four Guianas in population size
e) still belongs to France - Answer-a) was formerly a British colony before
independence in 1966
Figure 3-9 shows that Venezuela claims rights to a significant portion of this country:
and Answers All Correct
The slums of South America's large cities are known as ____________.
a) favelas or barrios
b) tierra urbanas
c) altiplanos
d) llanos
e) llamas - Answer-a) favelas or barrios
Figure 3-6 shows that this city has a population between five and ten million people:
a) Buenos Aires
b) São Paulo
c) Lima
d) Guayaquil
e) Caracas - Answer-c) Lima
has replaced the United States as the leading trading partner of Brazil, Chile and Peru.
a) Russia
b) Canada
c) Germany
d) Spain
e) China - Answer-
Bogotá, Colombia's capital city, is located ______________.
a) on the arid Pacific coast
b) on the Caribbean Sea at the outlet of the Magdalena River
c) in an Andean basin
d) at the intersection of three valleys in the eastern savanna zone near the Brazilian
border
e) in the llanos - Answer-c) in an Andean basin
, The dominant economic activity in Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo Lowland is
___________.
a) large-scale cattle herding
b) tourism
c) oil production
d) coffee farming
e) cocaine refining - Answer-c) oil production
Venezuela and Colombia as compared with the Guianas have ____________.
a) larger territories and smaller populations
b) larger populations and smaller territories
c) less varied physiographies
d) been more successful in replacing the plantation economy
e) fewer economic opportunities - Answer-d) been more successful in replacing the
plantation economy
The South American country that contains the northern end of the Andes is
___________.
a) Venezuela
b) Colombia
c) Panama
d) Brazil
e) Suriname - Answer-a) Venezuela
The major river of Venezuela is the _______________.
a) Rio de la Plata
b) Paraguay
c) Amazon
d) Orinoco
e) Magdalena - Answer-d) Orinoco
The country of Guyana _________________.
a) was formerly a British colony before independence in 1966
b) is also called Suriname
c) contains a population that is three-quarters European
d) is the smallest of the four Guianas in population size
e) still belongs to France - Answer-a) was formerly a British colony before
independence in 1966
Figure 3-9 shows that Venezuela claims rights to a significant portion of this country:
