Brazil!

By: Anna Beach

Take a tour of Brazil!

Where would you like to go in BRAZIL?

Geography

Geography 2

Geography 3

People

People 2 Religion

EconomyGeography 4

People 3

People 4

Catholic

Protestant

Brazilian Alphabet

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Brazil’s Money

Brazil’s Flag

Geography 5

Major Disasters of

Brazil!

Brazil’s Most Popular Sport!

Brazil’s Numbers!

Brief Summary of Brazil

Bibliography!

Geography!

• Total Area- 3,286,488 miles square• Land Area- 3,265,077 miles square• Location- east- South America• Neighbors- North: French Guiana,

Suriname, Guyana. • West: Columbia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay. • South: Argentina, and Uruguay.

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Geography 2!

• Cities and their pop.- Capital: Brasilia 3,599,000. Sao Paulo 18,845,000. Rio de Janeiro 11,748,000. Belo Horizonte 5,575,000

• Climate- tropical or semi- tropical. Tropical is nice and worm. Sometimes damp and it is very humid

• Semi-tropical is almost the same, but sometimes cooler and more damp

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Geography 3!

• Atlantic Coastline= 4,603 miles• Rains almost all year round on the coastline

and the temperature is about 25 degrees Celsius.

• North Basin Amazon= ½ of the country.• Navigated rivers= 15,814 miles, Amazon

River measures 2,093 miles by itself.• North East is a scrub land • A scrub land in poor and heavily settled

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Geography 4!

• South- ½ of the population lives here, 75% of farm goods and 80% of industrial output is produced here.

• Brazil’s highlands and plateaus average about less than 4000 feet

• Brazil’s highest point is the Peco de Neblina.

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Geography 5!

• South- ½ of the population lives here, • 75% of farm goods• 80% of industrial output is produced here.• 2 major geography features of Brazil are:

The Paranά, is a great river of Brazil.• It is the 14th longest river in the world,

running at 2,485 miles across Brazil

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People!

• Ethnicity- white 54%, mixed 39% black 6%

• Language- Portuguese (main language) Spanish, and English.

• Population- 198,739,269• Population density- 60.9 per square

mile.• 23.5 per square kilometer.

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People 2!

• European people first settled in Brazil.

• With the Europeans came African slaves

• A famous person from Brazil is: Pele.

• He is a famous soccer player.

• Was born on the great coastline mountains of Brazil in the small town of Tres Coracoes

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People 3!

• He was called Dico by his family and PelZ by his fans

• He was a shoe shiner as a boy • When he was 11, a Brazilian premier

players• 4 years later the Brazilian premier took

him to the directors • He told the directors “ This boy will be

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People 4 !

• By the next season Pele was the top scorer in his league

• Pele was known to stop war and such• Pele had a long, successful soccer career• In his entire career, he scored 1,200 goals• Pele died on October 23, 1940• He is still remembered to this day as one of

Brazil’s greatest soccer players!

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Brazilian Alphabet!A=á N= ene

B=bê O= Ó

C=cê P= pê

D=dê Q= quê

E=é R= erre

F= efe S= esse

G=gê T= tê

H= agá U= u

I= i V= vê

J= jota W= duplo-vê

K=cá X=xis

L= ele Y= igrego

M= eme Z= zêback

Brazil’s Numbers!

• 1= “um”• 2=“dois”• 3=“ três”• 4=“quatro”• 5=“cinco”• 6=“seis”• 7=“sete”• 8=“oito”• 9=“nove”• 10=“dez”

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Religion!

• Much of Brazil is religious.

• 74% of Brazil is Catholic

• 15% of Brazil is Protestant

• 7% of Brazil isn’t religious

• 4% of Brazil is a different religion, such as Christianity, Baptist, and Methodist.

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Catholic!:

• Holidays- Easter, Advent, and Lent• The Catholics believe in the Lord Jesus

Christ.• They believe that only people who

believe in the Lord Jesus Christ go to heaven.

• The sinners who have not asked forgiveness for their sins don’t go to heaven.

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Protestant!

Protestants believe in 3 main customs:

1. Supremacy of the Bible

2. Justification by faith alone

3. Universal Priesthood of Believers.

• They also believe in God and Jesus

• The difference of Protestant and Catholic is that Protestants organization is very different.

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Brazilian Money!

• Brazil’s money is called “ real”.

• Real is pronounced “/rei’a:l/”.

• 1 Brazil real = 0.560024 U.S. dollars.

• This is the main currency of Brazil

• Its sign is R$

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Major disasters of Brazil!

• They made a dam on the Amazon River. Then the dam failed. Because the dam failed, it triggered a huge black out in the surrounding places.

• Brazil gets a lot of rain sometimes. This year they got a huge flood from rain. This flood killed 100 people instantly.

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Brazil’s Flag!

• The stars on the flag represent constellations on the Southern Hemisphere.

• Across the blue circle it says Brazil’s modo” Ordem e Progesseo” which means “ Order and Progress”

• It was adopted on November 15 of 1889• Marechal Deodora da Fonseca was the

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Brazil’s Most Popular Sport!

• Brazil’s most popular sport is football.• Brazil’s football is our soccer, so according

to us their main sport is soccer, not football.• Soccer is in the blood of the Brazilians.• Brazil’s climate is perfect for playing soccer• It is the only country to participate in all of

the “Football World Cups” to this day.

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Economy!

• Brazil is blessed with many abundant natural resources.

• Some of their resources are: mining, agriculture, and manufacturing.

• Brazil is the most powerful country in all of South America

• From 2001 to 2002 Brazil’s economy grew 2.2%.

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A Brief Summary of Brazil!

• Brazil is a very populated country.

• It has many abundant natural resources

• It is the largest country in South America

• It has many forests and rivers.

• It is very religious

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Bibliography

• I used these resources to make this AMAZING slide show:

• 2010 Almanac

• www.mapsofworld.com

• En.wikipedia.org/wiki/flag_of_Brazil

• www.einews.com

• En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_Real

• www.prayerfoundation.org

• www.nativlang.org

• www.byki.com

• En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pele Click Here to

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