GEOG 1700 Midterm: Term Test 2 - Fall 2017
Document Summary
Latin american: environmental regions, in the news recently, very large earthquakes in mexico. Amazon is a very important environment, very delicate: resource exploration and exploitation in the peruvian. Amazon is not always welcome: natives do not appreciate the intrusion - most live a double life, one half of the year in the city, the other half in the village. Joined ventures between the country to promote settlement to non-cities, electric energy (cheap electricity: electricity is used to make aluminum, cities spring up where electric dams are, the rivers flow from the western highlands toward the. Atlantic: agricultural production on the west coast of south america strongly tied to altitudinal changes. Tierra caliente: sugar cane, tropical fruits, maize, etc. Tierra templada: coffee (very important to the economy, highly requested by the rest of the world), vegetables, short horn cattle. Tierra fria: maize, tubers, sheep, guinea pigs, llama, a lot of products started out south american, but then slowly became european staples.
