What is the name given to the world's largest rainforest that covers much of the Amazon Basin?

What type of landform characterizes the Brazilian Highlands, consisting of high, flat land?

In which climate zone is most of Brazil located?

What is the main purpose of producing sugarcane in Brazil?

When did the Pope divide the newly explored lands between Spain and Portugal?

Which of the following crops were grown by the Tupi people?

Why did the Portuguese begin to import Africans to Brazil?

In the republic established in Brazil after 1889, who was allowed to vote?

What is compulsory?

What is the largest mixed-race group in Brazil?

What percentage of Brazilians live within 200 miles of the Atlantic coast?

What is Brazil's official language?

What fraction of Brazilians live on less than $2 a day?

What recent discoveries were found off Brazil's coast?

Which term refers to a river or stream that flows into a larger one, or into a lake?

Tall evergreen trees form a(n) _____, or an umbrella-like covering over the Amazon rain forest.

Brasilia was built as Brazil's new capital to encourage settlement in _____.

Grassy, treeless plains called _____ are one of Brazil's most productive ranching and farming areas.

Most of Brazil's population lives in _____.

Most of Brazil is located in the _____ zone, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

Summer months in the United States are _____ months in Brazil.

Recent improvements in _____ have made the resources in Brazil's vast interior available to its growing industries and population.

Brazil is the world's largest exporter of _____.

Brazilian _____ is used to make ethanol, which is mixed with gasoline and used as fuel for cars and trucks.

Brazil is the only South American country that has a(n) ______ heritage.

The Tupi, Arawak, and Carib are three of the many ______ peoples who lived in Brazil before Europeans arrived.

The Tupi and Brazil's other lowland and rain forest peoples practiced ______ agriculture.

What material extracted from brazilwood was highly valued in Europe?

In the 1600s, ______ became Brazil's main export and Portugal's greatest source of wealth.

The discovery of gold in the 1690s and then the discovery of ______ in the 1720s drew thousands of colonists to Brazil.

What economic activity led to African slavery in Brazil?

Brazil gained independence partly as an indirect result of the actions of the French emperor ______.

Today, Brazil is a(n) ______, in which people elect a president and other leaders.

In Brazil, voting is ______, therefore citizens are required by law to vote.

What is Brazil’s largest metropolitan area?

Most of Brazil’s large cities also have favelas, which are _____ communities located on the edges of the cities.

São Paulo is the _____ center of Brazil.

São Paulo and _____ have the most and largest favelas in Brazil.

After slavery ended in Brazil, large numbers of _____ arrived to work on the coffee plantations.

The official language of Brazil is _____.

Brazilians blended samba rhythms with jazz to introduce the world to music called _____.

Brazil’s national food dish is a stew made of _____, dried beef, and pork.

What is Brazil’s most popular sport?

The Transamazonica Highway and other new roads have increased _____, which causes destruction of the Amazon rain forest.