Geography of South America
The Inca of South America
Mission and culture of South America
True/False Questions About South America
Physical Geography
100
This is the largest country in South America.
What is Brazil?
100

How did the Inca connect their vast empire?

Thousands of miles of road.

100

The South American "cowboy" 

What is a gaucho
100
South America is a country.
What is FALSE? South America is a CONTINENT.
100
The largest River in the world

Amazon River

200

What tool did the Inca use to send messages?

Quipu

200

This is a common type of religion among the Indigenous people of the Amazon

What is Animism

200
The most commonly spoken language in South America is Spanish.
What is FALSE? Portuguese is the most spoken language in South America, followed by Spanish, which is the official language of most countries.
200

The bottom layer of plants and especially the trees and shrubs between the forest canopy and the ground cover.

What is the understory?

300

The majority of the Pampas are found in this country.

What is Argentina?

300

The Inca structures famous for constructing out of this material and without using ____________?

What is Stone and without using morter

300

Missionaries to Ecuador tried to connect with  the Aucas by?

What is providing them with useful tools (machetes, pots) as gifts

300

Cococabana Beach is found off the Pacific Ocean

False, Atlantic Ocean

300

The second longest River in the World

The Amazon River

400

A southern region found in South America that is cold and rugged with large, jagged, mountains and glaciers.

What is the Patagonia.

400

This Incan village was likely used for religious purposes and was also one of the last hiding places used to escape the Spanish.

What is Machu Picchu

400

The Auca name for "God"

Who is Wangogi

400

South America was likely populated by people groups originating in Asia and "island hopping" to North America.

False; "Island Hopping" to South America

400

A large elevated region in Southern Brazil formed mostly through Erosion.

What are the Brazilian Highlands

500

This South American physical feature contains well over 100 volcanoes.

What are the Andes Mountains.

500

The natural material used by Incans to build swinging bridges in the Andes mountains?

What is Grass

500

Dayuma explained the Bible in a way her fellow tribemen could understand

What are carvings to "mark the trail"

500
South America is mostly a jungle and a rain forest.
What is FALSE? Through yours and your peers research, you have found that there is SO much more to be found in South America than jungles and rain forests! However, Brazil is home to the biggest tropical rainforest in the world – The Amazon!
500

The Amazon River runs through this geographic region where the Amazon Rainforest is also found

What is the Amazon River Basin

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