Brazil Flashcards
What is Brazil?
A very large country in South America. It is in the Mid-East portion of it. It takes up half of South America’s area, it is the fifth largest country in the world, it is Portugese-speaking, it has a diverse population, and it borders almost every other country in South America.
What is one of the main problems for agriculture in Brazil?
The El Nino.
What animal in Brazil is found 1,000 miles from the ocean?
The freshwater porpoise.
What is Sao Paolo?
The economic heart of South America and of Brazil.
What is Rio de Janeiro?
A huge seaside city in Brazil. The city ran out of most space, so new land is all now vertical.
What are Favelas?
Brazillian slums that are now becoming very developed.
What is Santos?
The main manufacturing and exporting city of Brazil.
During colonial times African slaves were brought to Brazil along the ______.
Middle Passage.
