Chapter 4 Quiz Questions

The earliest urban anchor of Portugal's colonial holdings in South America and the second largest city in the entire Portuguese realm at the time was: - Salvador da Bahia - Manaus - Sao Paulo - Belem

Which one of the following is not true with respect to spatial segregation in South American cities? - proximity seems to be accentuating tensions between social classes - South American cities have long been highly segregated - population expansion is bringing distinct social groups into contact - polarization of lifestyles by neighborhood is decreasing

A "Water War" erupted in Cochabamba, Peru, in 2000. What event precipitated these major uprisings and multiday protests by the city's citizens? - a proposed upstream dam was responsible for increasing prices paid in water - a municipal ordinance was passed to increase the price of water - a multinational agricultural firm was given authority to use municipal water - a global company was given control of the city's water and it raised water fees

Sao Paulo's economic base was initially tied to the growing and transshipment of: - wheat - bananas - coffee - sugar cane

The cities of Sau Paulo and Rio de Janeiro were founded in what century? - 15th century - 16th century - 14th century - 17th century

Brazil's efforts to open up the interior of the country to settlement and development has: - resulted in Brasilia becoming the most important city in the country - included establishment of new urban centers far from the coast - led to a sharp reduction in the primacy of Rio de Janeiro - changed the dual primacy of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo to triple primacy

The level of urbanization (% urban) in South America approximates that of: - Sub-Saharan Africa - the US and Canada - South Asia - East Asia

Venezuela's Ciudad Guyana does not fit into which of the following categories? - steel-manufacturing centers - gateway cities - growth poles - new towns

During it's "golden age" in the late 19th century, it was known as the "Paris of South America". To what city does this moniker refer? - Caracas - Buenos Aires - Lima - Santiago

Georgetown, Guyana, along with the cities of suriname and French Guiana: - are characterized by an ethnic geography that is Caribbean in it's composition - are located on the continent of South America - both - neither

One of the main reasons for the building of Brasilia was to: - redistribute the population from the coast to the interior - open up the iron mining districts of the planalto - host a world's fair in a controlled environment - provide housing for a new wave of immigrants from Europe

Buenos Aires is located on the edge of the humid pampas. How would you describe the setting of Lima? - Meditteranean shrubland - coastal desert - tropical steppe - subtropical forest

In the 19th century, South American cities became more integrated into the global economy by coordinating the export of primary commodities and import of manufactured goods. What primary commodities were important in the 19th century? - sugar, coffee, bananas, yerba mate - gold, silver, titanium, iron ore - rubber, sugar, bananas, hardwoods - beef, minerals, coffee, rubber

Brazil's 1956 Development Plan designated what city as the site of the country's foreign-led automobile industry beginning with Volkswagen? - Rio de Janeiro - Belo Horizonte - Curitiba - Sao Paulo

The growth of Lima during the second half of the 20th century could best be described as: - conforming to the concentric zone model - government-controlled and nucleated - rapid and unplanned - all of the above

Pre-Colombian urbanization in South America reached its height in cities like Cuzco, which was built by the: - Mayas - Toltecs - Incas - Aztecs

Brasilia: - was designed using traditional principles of urban planning - is situated close to the geometric center of the Amazon Basin - was built before WWII to help the country open up the interior of the country - has a center that is shaped like an airplane with a residential and governmental axis

Half of Uruguay's population resides in Montevideo, and a third of Chile's population resides in Santiago. The demographic dominance of Montevideo and Santiago makes these cities: - primate cities - megacities - world cities - capital cities

Self-help housing in South America is characterized by all of the following except: - vulnerability to floods and mudslides - locations on the urban periphery - the use of simple building materials - planned zones of urban expansion

With nearly 50 million people in an area the size of Austria, it represents a quarter of the national population and one-third of the GNP. What is it? - the Lima-Callao corridor - Brazil's megalopolis - the Buenos Aires metropolitan area - the Sao Paulo metropolitan area

A right-angle gridiron of streets oriented around a central plaza was the urban from required under: - Spain's "Laws of the Indies" - Spain's Reconquista - Portugal's Reconquista - Portugal's "Laws of the Indies"

Residents of asentamientos humanos and villas meserias usually lack security of tenure, which means they lack: - title to the land - access to police and fire protection - jobs that pay at least minimum wages - guarantees of stabilized rent

3 megacities of South America are:

What would you find in South America's "favelas"? - middle class housing - the urban poor - central and peripheral business districts - manufacturing industries

Lima, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo are: - capital cities - both capital cities and primate cities - neither capital cities nor primate cities - primate cities

Since the beginning of the 21st century, Bogota has successfully developed what two alternatives to the automobile as methods of moving people around the city? - ride sharing apps and subway lines - bus rapid transit and bicycle lanes - subway lines and bus rapid transit - bicycle lanes and ride sharing apps

Which pair of cities is Portuguese-speaking? - Quito and Guayaquil - Santiago and Valparaiso - Lima and Callao - Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

Crimes such as homicide in Sao Paulo often correlate with: - poverty - income inequality - drug-trafficking - all of the above

Which one of the following South American cities is most vulnerable to sea level rise? - Sao Paulo - Lima - Buenos Aires - Brasilia

In which one of South America's regions do cities have the largest proportion of indigenous inhabitants? - Caribbean Coast - Southern Core - Andean America - Brazil