- The world's largest flood plain and home to the greatest quantity and variety of wildlife in all the Americas , located in eastern central Brazil
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Your answer:
Marajó Island
Fernando de Noronha Island
Lençois Maranhenses National Park
Pantanal Mato-Grossense
- What does the word "Iguaçu"(name given to the Falls in Brazil) mean in the Tupi-Guarani language?
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Your answer:
mother water
great waters
magic waterfall
beautiful water
- Most economic development in Brazil (63% of all industrial production) is concentrated into a relatively small area (10% of the national territory) . This region is now one of the most prosperous in Brazil and includes the area where the coffee industry developed and where you can find mineral resources like precious stones.
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Your answer:
the Central West
The South
the Northeast
The Southeast
- The largest hydroelectric works in Brazil and in the world, it has the capacity to generate 12,6 million kilowatts and supply the energy needs of Paraguay and Southern Brazil. The concrete used in this dam could have paved a two-lane highway from Moscow to Lisbon.
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Your answer:
Itaipu
Jupiá
Sobradinho
Ilha Solteira
- The most important ports in the southeast of Brazil are:
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Your answer:
Ilhéus and Recife
Tubarão and Laguna
Rio Grande and Itajaí
Santos and Rio de Janeiro
- The Brazilian basic unit of currency is
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Your answer:
real
cruzeiro
peso
cruzado
- 1) A Unesco World Heritage site with numerous rock shelters decorated with cave paintings, some of which are more than 25000 years old. It's an exceptional testimony of one of the oldest human communities of South America
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Your answer:
Historic Centre of São Luiz
Chapada dos Guimarães
Serra da Bocaina National Park
Serra da Capivara National Park
- A major tourist destination in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul with impressive natural resources like caves, underground lakes and incredibly clear rivers.
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Your answer:
Bela Vista
Chapada dos Guimarães
Pantanal Mato-Grossense
Bonito
- Baependi, Caxambu, São Lourenço, Cambuquira and Passo Quatro are:
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Your answer:
ghost towns in Minas Gerais where many far west films were made
mystic villages in the mountains northeast of Minas Gerais.
mineral spa towns south of Minas Gerais
famous beaches south of Rio de Janeiro
- .The 6275 km-long Amazon is the world's largest river. With around 1100 tributaries, 10 of which have more water than the Mississipi river, the Amazon carries an estimated __________of the world's fresh water.
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Your answer:
40%
30%
50%
20%
- What is the most important problem in the northeast of Brazil?
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Your answer:
drought
volcano eruptions
floods
earthquakes
- The Brazilian capital , Brasília was created ex nihilo (out of nothing) in the centre of the country so as to integrate all regions and develop the interior. It was projected by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer and considered a landmark in the history of town-planning. The layout of the residential and administrative districts is often compared with the shape of :
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Your answer:
a rocket
an aeroplane
a flying saucer
a boat
- In which region is the state of Alagoas located?
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Your answer:
Central West
North
South
Northeast
- Brazil covers 47.3% of the continent of South America and is the fifth largest country by area in the world. Only two countries do not have a border with Brazil. Can you name them?
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Your answer:
Venezuela and Peru
Bolivia and Ecuador
Peru and Chile
Chile and Ecuador
- 58% of Brazil is covered by:
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Your answer:
the Amazon rainforest
marshes and wetlands
grassland, savannas and palm trees
grassland, pine forests and semi-desert areas