34 Social -- South America

Describe the physical region of South America in brief.

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South America is the fourth largest continent of the world. It's western part is covered by Andes mountain Range for top north to south. According to its diverse physical features, it has been divided into 3 divisions. They are the western mountain ranges, eastern highlands and central plains. The western mountain has cold climate and rocky land, the central plains has cool climate with fertile alluvial soil that is suitable for agriculture. The eastern highlands are rich in water resources and famous for tea and coffee production.

What is Pampas famous for?

Pampas is famousfor grassland.

What is Selvas?

Selves is the dense evergreen forest of the Amazonbasin in south America.

Consult the physical and political map of South America and find out the following:

a.The largest mountain range of south America.
- Andes mountain Range.

b.The highest peak of south America.
- Mt. Andes.

c.The longest country of south America.
- Chile.

d.The largest river that falls into the Atlantic Ocean.
- Amazon.

e.Tropical grassland receiving rainfall only in summer.
- Llanon.

f. Temperategrassland receiving rainfall only in summer.
-Pampas.

g.Temperate desert.
-Patagonia.

Argentina exports large quantity of meat. Why?

We know, the famous grassland of the world 'pampas'is located in Argentina This grassland is the grazingland for the thousands of livestock. So, animalhusbandryis very popularhere. The reared animals areused for milk, meat, wool, etc. So, asArgentina isfamous for animal husbandry, it is exporting largequantity of meat.

Amazon basin is covered by dense forest. Why?

We know, the land structure of anybasinisveryfertile. There is alluvial soil in the basinof Amazonwhich very fertile. Also, the rainfall usuallyoccurs frequently, as the water cycle isfrequent there. So,due to the presence of fertile soil and water resources,Amazonbasinis covered by dense forest.

Which part of South America is most sparsely and densely populated? Why?

The western mountains of south America is sparselypopulated because of its difficult topography for theconduction of different economic, physical and otheractivities like agriculture, transport, and otherphysical facilities.
In the other hand, the costalarea of south Americais densely populated because of the availability of thedifferentphysical facilities, establishmentof different industries, sea route to any part of the world, etc.People are lust of advanced way of living andmigrate to the...

Nowadays most of the people living in the central part of Brazil are migrating to the big costal cities. About 80% of total population lives in city areas. Why?

About 80% of total population of Brazil lives in cityarea because:
-Lust of sophisticated living.
-Establishment of different large industries.
-Sea route to supply goods and get raw materials from anypart of world.
-Availabilityof different physical facilities.
- Fishing can be widely practiced in sea areas.
- To live a advanced and easy life.

Describe two push and two pull factors of this type of migration.

Any two push factors of this type of migration are:
-Absence of different physical facilities.
- Transportation of produced goods to other countries isdifficult.
Any two pull factors of this type of migration are:
- Advanced and easy way of living.
- Sea route for transportation to any part ofworld.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of such urbanization?

The advantages of such urbanization are:
- Every citizen will be able to live quality life.
-Every citizen can have common effort for nationdevelopment.
- Foreign trade will be effectiveand highentranceof foreign currency.
- The National Income would increase along with PCI.

The disadvantages of such urbanization are:
- Unhealthy distribution of population andsettlement.
-Centralization of development.
- Uneven or unequaldevelopment of nation.
-Production of huge amount of wastes that...

The given wheel-diagram shows the production of coffee in the world. Why is south America suitable for its production? What is its economic importance?

We know, Brazil is one of the large country of southAmerica, which is rich in water resources. The south-easthighlands of Brazil have reliablerainfall and goodsoil for coffee cultivation. It is exporting the highestamount of coffee in the world. Similarly, the secondlargest coffee exporter in highest amount in theworld viz Colombiaalso lies in south America. As theboth second and first largest producer of coffeeinthe world is located in south America, it is the largestproducer of coffee among...

In the Andes region of south America, Llamas are the beast of burden like sheep in mountain range of Nepal. Why?

Andes region is likely to be compared as the mountain region of Nepal andthe llamas with sheep. We know,the topographymountain range is difficult. So, the development of any infrastructure is harder. Any people usesheep as a transporting means in such difficulttopography.Similarly, llamas in Andes region is used as transportingmeans in the mountains of Andes regionas othertransporting means are absent there.

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