SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY
4TH LARGEST CONTINENT
SOUTH AMERICA
MOST FAMOUS EARLY SOUTH AMERICAN INDIAN CIVILIZATION
INCAS
CAPITAL OF BRAZIL
BRASILIA
MORE INDIANS LIVE HERE THAN IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
PERU
MUCH OF SOUTH AMERICA IS LOCATED HERE
TORRID ZONE
MAJOR MOUNTAIN RANGE IN SOUTH AMERICA
ANDES MOUNTAINS
LANGUAGE OF THE INCAS
QUECHUA
FERTILE GRASSLANDS EXTENDING ACROSS ARGENTINA
PAMPAS
SAID TO PRODUCE THE WORLD’S FINEST COFFEE
COLOMBIA
SEPARATES THE ISLANDS OF TIERRA DEL FUEGO FROM THE SOUTH AMERICAN MAINLAND
STRAIT OF MAGELLAN
ONE OF THE DRIEST REGIONS IN THE WORLD, FOUND IN SOUTH AMERICA
ATACAMA DESERT
SPANISH CONQUISTADOR WHO CONQUERED THE INCAS
FRANCISCO PIZARRO
LANDLOCKED SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY WITH TWO CAPITAL CITIES
BOLIVIA
SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY THAT PRODUCES A GREAT VOLUME OF WHEAT
ARGENTINA
FIRST EUROPEAN TO SAIL FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
FERDINAND MAGELLAN
HIGHEST NAVIGABLE LAKE IN THE WORLD
LAKE TITICACA
FIRST MAN TO REALIZE THAT THE AMERICAS WERE A “NEW WORLD”
AMERIGO VESPUCCI
CAPITAL OF ECUADOR
QUITO
KNOWN FOR ITS PRODUCTION OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
VENEZUELA
MISSIONARY TO THE QUECHUAS AND THE AUCAS OF ECUADOR
JIM ELLIOT
SOUTH AMERICA’S LARGEST LAKE
LAKE MARACAIBO
ONE OF THE FIRST PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES TO SOUTH AMERICA
JAMES THOMSON
CITY IN VENEZUELA THAT IS THE OLDEST PERMANENT EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT IN SOUTH AMERICA
CUMANA
IN BRAZIL IS ONE OF THE 7 NATURAL WONDERS OF THE WORLD
GUANABARA BAY
MOST FAMOUS PATRIOT IN SOUTH AMERICA’S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE; THE “GEORGE WASHINGTON OF SOUTH AMERICA”
SIMON BOLIVAR