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WorksheetsBrazil review
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is a Tributary?
Tall trees with no leaves.
Small junge with few animals.
a small river that flows into a larger river
Forest Fire that ca't be put out.
Define indigenous.
A soccer player.
The popular kids.
Natives to the land.
Terrorist.
slash-and-burn agriculture
A dark form of music.
A world wind of fire buring up crops.
A ceremont to bring better crops.
Cutting down trees and burning away underbrush to create fields for growing crops.
Rio de Janeiro became the capital of the Portuguese Empire when the royal family and other government leaders fled there to escape the French army.
Ture
False
What are the top two crops of Brazil?
Corn and Green beans
Coffee and Soybeans
Grass and Hay
Cakes and Cookies
Where do most Brazilians live?
on the highland plateaus
on the Pampas
on the Amazon Basin
on the coastal lowlands
King John III gave wealthy supporters land grants.
True
False
The Queen of Enland is under which form of government?
Communism
Democracy
Constitiutional Monarchy
Republic
Brazil became an independent nation when Dom João made his
son Pedro emperor.
True
False
What form of limited government did Brazil adopt when it gained its independence in the 1820s?
oligarchy
democracy
republic
constitutional monarchy
Emperor Pedro I was a popular and beloved ruler.
Ture
False
Christopher Columbus was an expolerer for what country?
Japan
Brazil
Guam
Spain
In what way is Brazil different from every other South American country?
It is the only South American country that has a Portuguese heritage.
It is the only South American country where Spanish is spoken.
It is the only South American country where Christianity is not the main religion.
It is the only South American country that has an indigenous population.
The largest country in South America is Brazil.
True
False
Where would you most likely encounter a favela, or shantytown?
in the rain forest
In a small, rural town
on a plantation
on the edge of a city
In the 1500s, King John III of Portugal gave large tracts of land in Brazil to his supporters, who agreed to develop the land. Which of the following was a direct consequence of the land-grant system?
Portugal went bankrupt from giving up so much valuable land.
Spain sent troops into the region to prevent the colonization of Brazil.
Colonists forced the native population into slavery.
Colonists became wealthy by selling the land to the native populations.
Roman Catholicism
is the predominant religion in Brazil.
True
False
Sometimes
Of which agricultural product is Brazil the largest supplier?
oranges
pineapples
cotton
pears
The
River flows east across Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean.
Orinoco
Amazon
Los Lane
Rio Grande
