Chapter 8 Brazil

The Amazon is the largest river in terms of the amount of salt water it carries

• TRUE

• FALSE

Brazil has one of the largest strips of coastal plains in South America

• True

• False

Logging in the Amazon Basin has become a major environmental issue

• True

• False

Brazil got its name from the Brazil nuts that grow in the region

• True

• False

Wealthy coffee growers in the southeast dominated the early Brazilian republic

• True

• False

Today Brazil is ruled by the military; generals hold most of the important governmental positions

• True

• False

A remote inland region

• central city

• favela

• hinterland

A makeshift community on the edge of a city

• metropolitan area

• favela

• central city

The largest or most important city in a metropolitan area

• metropolitan area

• favela

• central city

• Hinterland

a city and the built- up areas around it

• hinterland

• metropolitan area

• central city

• favela