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These mountains form the longest mountain range in the world.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This river system drains the larges area, carries the largest volume of water, and runs 4,075 miles long.
What is the Amazon River?
These two main factors affect the climate of South America.
What are the Intertropical Convergence Zone and the altitude of certain regions?
What is French Guiana?
This country is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Western Hemisphere.
What is Brazil?
The largest religious group in South America.
What is Roman Catholicism?
In this process, rain drains soil of its nutrients.
What is leaching?
These two South American countries are landlocked.
What are Bolivia and Paraguay?
This desert is considered the world's driest desert.
What is the Atacama Desert?
Roughly 60% of the world's supply of this product comes from South America.
What is coffee?
This country nationalized is industries in the 2000's.
What is Venezuela?
What are mountains and jungles?
The second largest religious group in South America.
What is Protestant Evangelical?
These have been the key to holding back development in the rainforest.
What are tribal peoples?
Argentina's low plains.
What are the Pampas?
The highest waterfall in the world.
What is Angel Falls?
Colombia has almost 90% of the world's supply of this gem.
What are emeralds?
Most countries in South America are free or moderately free, but these three are not.
What are Venezuela, Suriname, and Bolivia?
The Guianas were colonized by these people.
Who are the Dutch, French, and English?
This statue is in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
What is Christ the Redeemer statue?
The Amazon rainforest affects rainfall by this.
What is generating rain?
This plateau separates Venezuela's Caribbean cost from the Amazon Basin.
What are the Guiana Highlands?
This is a passageway in the south between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Strait of Magellan?
This country leads the world in rose production.
What is Ecuador?
This is a sudden and illegal seizure of the power of government.
What is a coup d'état?
This term is used to describe Latin culture.
What is multiactive?
The first Latin American pope.
Who is Pope Francis? (Cardinal Bergoglio)
The key cultural aesthetics in South America.
What are sports, food, and festivals?
The broad grassy plains that cover over half of Columbia.
What are the Llanos?
These are examples of escarpments.
What is sodium nitrate?
There seems to be a cycle in which a militarist dictator or a group of generals called a ___ comes to power.
What is a junta?
The members of this alliance desire more control over their economies.
What is the Mercosur Alliance?
Pentecostals believe this is an aid to holy living.
What is a second blessing?
What is the main difference between the Mercosur Alliance and the Pacific Alliance?
The members of the Mercosur Alliance tend to desire more control over their economies. The members of the Pacific Alliance emphasize free trade between members and the rest of the world.