GEOG 1001 : Test 4 Study Guide
Geography Final 1
GEOG 1001: Study Guide for Exam 4
Chapter 7
1) How many people in total live in Latin America and the Caribbean
a. 596 million
2) The average GNI PPP per capita in Latin America and the Caribbean
a. 10130
3) The average rainfall in the rainforests of the Amazon.
a. 1.5-2 meters annually
4) The three deserts in the region mentioned in the textbook.
a. Sonoran, Chihuahuan Deserts of Mexico, and the Atacama Desert of
Chile
5) The four different types of ALTITUDINAL ZONATION described in the
textbook.
a. Tierra caliente (warm land); tierra templada (moderate land); higher
tierra fria (cold land); tierra helada (icy land)
6) The country most affected by Hurricane Mitch, and the damage it caused.
a. About a year’s worth of rain, or 1.2 meters (nearly 4 years), on
Central America
b. Nearly 10000 people dead, almost 20000 mission, and more than 2.5
temporarily dependent on emergency aid
c. Honduras was the hardest hit
7) The impacts of EL NINO the region.
a. World-wide changes in climate, including droughts and floods
b. Warmer and wetter winds to the coasts of Peru and Ecuador with
high rainfall and flooding
8) The impacts of CLIMATE CHANGE in the region, specifically the potential of
the Amazon to become a TIPPING POINT.
a. Global Warming affecting the area
i. Snowfields and glaciers Melting in the Andes
1. Prob. for communities who use the snow and ice for
irrigation, drinking water, hydroelectric schemes. Dry
conditions may cause loss of power in major cities.
ii. More intense hurricanes
iii. Drying of the Amazon
1. Deforestation and high co2 levels, drought
2. Amazon is major “sink” because it absorbs green
house gases
3. Also major rainfall source
b. Tipping Point: areas where climate could shift suddenly as a result of
climate and environmental change.
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i. Amazon drying, fires, and associated carbon emissions could
flip the vegetation from forest to grassland and make the area
source of emission rather than a sink for carbon.
9) The importance of the LTIPLANO for human occupation of the region
a. A plateau in the Andes
b. Important for human occupation because it provides a flatter, cooler,
and wetter environment for agriculture and settlement than do the
adjacent steep-slope mountains, dry low-land deserts, and humid
lowlands
10) The four important cities mentioned in the textbook that have suffered
significant damage from earthquakes
a. Mexico City, Managua, Guatemala City, Santiago
11) The name of the tallest waterfall in the region, which is also the tallest in the
world.
a. Angel Falls—Venezuela
12) The country in which the Pampas ecosystem is found, and the countries
where the similar Llanos ecosystem is found.
a. Pampas—Argentina
b. Llanos—Colombia and Venezuela
13) The highest peak in the region, and its altitude.
a. Aconcagua—22841
14) The food crops that were first domesticated in the region
a. Maize, manioc, beans, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, squash,
avocados, and pineapples
15) The percentage of the Amazon rainforest that has been cleared since 1900
a. 15%
16) The negative impacts of THE GREEN REVOLUTION in the region.
a. Increased dependence on imports of chemicals and machines from
foreign companies; thus contributing to the debt problem
b. Poor farmers whose land was watered only by rainfall fell behind or
sold their land
c. Contributed to the worldwide loss of genetic diversity: wide range of
local crops were replaced with narrow range of high-yield varieties of
just a few crops
d. Machines replaced workers and it excluded the women
17) The importance of the TREATY OF TORDESILLAS for dividing the continent
between Spain and Portugal.
a. Portugal received the area east of the line, much of Brazil and parts of
Africa
b. Spain received the area to the west of the line
c. Prevented Spanish and Portuguese competition from erupting into
war
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