Chapter 7 Test Review

What geographic feature stretches nearly the entire width of South America?

• Amazon Basin

• Andes Mountains

• Angel Falls

• Guiana Highlands

What best describes the climate found in the highest elevations of the Andes Mountains

• cold, little rain

• cool, some rain

• warm, adequate rain

• hot, extreme torrential devastating rain

What do greenhouse gases do?

• give off dry air

• improve air quality

• trap heat energy

• help maintain healthy ecosystems

How were the Inca able to farm on the slopes of the Andes Mountains

• connecting roads

• crop rotations

• suspension bridges

• terraced fields

What causes the Atacama Desert to be so dry?

• Andes Mountains prevent moist winds from reaching the coast

• Amazon Basin is too wide for wind to reach the desert

• Peru Current keeps moisture away from the coast of Chile

• Brazil Current drops almost all its moisture in the Amazon Basin

One reason that people have lived in South America's lowlands

• extreme climate

• food supply

• group kinship

• advanced society

What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?

• gave Columbus permission to sail to South America

• converted the native populations to new religious beliefs

• divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal

• permitted the use of slaves to work on plantations

What is the climate like over most of the Amazon River Basin?

• cold and dry

• cold and humid

• hot and humid

• hot and dry

In what type of farming do people grow only enough food to feed their own families?

• large scale farming

• lowland farming

• plantation farming

• subsistence farming

Smaller rivers that drain into a larger river are called...

• branches

• canals

• floodwaters

• tributaries