Bodies of Water
A narrow body of water between two large land masses.
What is a strait?
Largest country on the continent of South America
What is Brazil?
In recent years, the major export of the country of Venezuela
What is oil?
The most dominant religion in South America
What is Catholicism?
The number of individual countries on the South American continent
What is 13?
A man-made body of water created by damming a river.
What is a reservoir?
Because much of South America lies south of the Equator, what do we know about the seasons?
What is the seasons are opposite of the northern hemisphere?
Major agricultural product produced in Chile?
What are potatoes?
The main language spoken throughout South America
What is Spanish?
The three bodies of water that border South America
What are the Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean?
A man-made body of water that connects two larger bodies of water.
What is canal?
The two most prominent geographic features of South America
What are the Andes Mountains and the Amazon Rainforest?
Agricultural product that has been converted into an energy resource
What is sugar?
The main language spoken in Brazil
What is Portuguese?
The two economic activities that cause the most destruction to the Amazon rainforest
What are mining and logging?
The crucial body of water in the Middle East that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
The two landlocked countries on the South American continent
What are Bolivia and Paraguay?
Type of farming practice that allows for growing of multiple forms of potatoes in Chile
What is terrace farming?
Overly crowded sun-down housing areas on the outskirts of large cities primarily in Brazin
What are favelas?
The European country that has a territory on the South American continent
What is France?
Crucial body of water that is currently compromised due to hostilities between the U.S. and Iran.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
The location of most major cities on the South American continent.
What is along the coastline?
In addition to oil production and agriculture another major contributor to the economy of South America
What is mining?
Societal issue that plagues some parts of Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador more than other parts of South America
What is violence associated with drugs
The form of government practiced to some degree in all South American countries
What is democracy