Brazil's Quest for Economic Growth

Gasohol is an alcohol-based fuel.

• True

• False

A few wealthy families own plantations in Brazil.

• True

• False

The government of Brazil discourages ecotourism.

• True

• False

Deforestation helps increase the population of many species.

• True

• False

Brasília is the center of a network of roads.

• True

• False

Many agricultural workers in Brazil are poor because

• the country lacks roads to transport crops

• they have little or no land and the climate is unfavorable for farming

• the vegetation of the rain forest quickly overtakes farmland

• the country lacks foreign markets for its crops

The Brazilian government has tried to reduce poverty by

• changing to a socialist economic system

• instituting a welfare program for the poor

• boosting industry and encouraging the development of the country's interior

• promoting the sale of oil to developed countries

As a result of Brazil’s economic development, poverty in the industrial cities has

• increased as technology has been ignored

• decreased as new jobs have opened up

• decreased as people have been attracted to free land in the Amazon

• increased as more rural people have moved to the cities

Brazil’s development programs have resulted in

• an increase in manufacturing and growth of the middle class

• an increase in the agricultural labor force and growth of the upper class

• a mass movement of people from the coastal cities to the interior

• the elimination of Brazil's foreign debt

The development of the Amazon Basin has

• stimulated the growth of Native cultures

• caused erosion of the soil

• made Brazil a major world power

• been abandoned for environmental reasons