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What is the largest country in South America?
Brazil
What is the capital of Brazil?
Brasilia
What is the name of the huge river that flows through the Amazon Rainforest?
The Amazon River
What do you call one of Earth's major continuous landmasses?
Continent
What imaginary line crosses northern South America at 0° latitude?
Equator
Which country is directly west of Brazil and north of Chile?
Bolivia
What is the capital of Argentina?
Buenos Aires
What mountain range runs along the western edge of South America?
The Andes
What do you call a body of water partly enclosed by land, with a wide opening to a larger body of water?
Bay
Which South American country has the world's highest capital city by elevation, commonly cited as La Paz?
Bolivia
Which South American country is named after the equator?
Ecuador
What is the capital of Peru?
Lima
What is the tallest mountain in South America?
Aconcagua
What do you call a group or chain of islands?
Archipelago
What is the name of the imaginary line at 23.5° south latitude?
Tropic of Capricorn
Which South American country is the longest and narrowest, stretching along the Pacific coast?
Chile
What is the capital of Colombia?
Bogota
What is the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall, located in Venezuela?
Angel Falls
What landform often forms where a river deposits sediment as it enters a larger body of water?
Delta
What is the name of the grassland region found in Argentina and Uruguay?
The Pampas
Which two South American countries are landlocked?
Bolivia and Paraguay
What is the capital of Suriname?
Paramaribo
Which river flows primarily through Venezuela and empties into the Atlantic Ocean?
Orinoco River
What do you call a ring-shaped coral island or reef that surrounds a lagoon?
Atoll
Which large lake in the Andes lies on the border of Peru and Bolivia?
Lake Titicaca