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World Geography EOC Quiz 2 Over Latin America. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Which of the following is a significant environmental challenge to developing nations in South America?
a) toxic emissions
b) sedimentation
c) deforestation
d) droughts

If you were dividing an outline map into four political regions of Latin America, what would be the most appropriate political units?
a) Mexico, Central America, South America west of the Andes, South America east of the Andes
b) Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean Islands and South America
c) Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and French colonial areas
d) North America, Central America, South America, Brazil

A Formal Region is ?
a) A central area connected to others by transportation, communication, or economic activity.
b) A subjective image created by people's thoughts and feelings about an area.
c) An area that shares common human or physical characteristics.
d) none of these.

A Functional region is?
a) A central area connected to others by transportation, communication, or economic activity.
b) A subjective image created by people's thoughts and feelings about an area.
c) An area that shares common human or physical characteristics.
d) none of these

All of the following are ways that humans have modified the environment of Latin America EXCEPT-?
a) building of the Panama Railroad.
b) burning of the rainforest for farmland.
c) building winding roads through the Andes.
d) studying the environment through expeditions.

All of the following affect subsistence farming EXCEPT-?
a) climate
b) services
c) soil
d) topography

Which of the following correctly lists a positive economic and a negative geographic impact of deforestation in the Amazon basin?
a) Logging and its byproducts create thousands of jobs, and native people can take these jobs.
b) There is a possibility that thousands of cures can be found in the forest, and erosion from logging
c) Cities and transportation systems are growing throughout the region, and more medical health car
d) More land is made available for agriculture and ranching, there's a loss of land in natural habitat.

A perceptual region is ?
a) A subjective image created by people's thoughts and feeling about the area.
b) A central area connected to others by transportation, communication, or economic activity.
c) An area that shares common human or physical characteristics.
d) none of these.

The Columbian Exchange occurred among Africa, Latin America, North America and Europe. What is a lasting effect on Latin America from this exchange?
a) Europe colonized the area.
b) Slavery continued on plantations.
c) New products came from Africa
d) African cultural influence is evident today.

In Latin America, which of the following has been least likely impacted by satellite technology?
a) communication improvements
b) Global Positioning Systems use
c) Geographic Information Systems use
d) improvements in transportation systems

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