Vocabulary
Height above sea level
What is Altitude?
The World's largest tropical rain forest.
What is the Amazon Basin/ Rain forest?
The Worlds longest river.
What is the Amazon?
South Americas Largest Country
What is Brazil?
These countries have difficulty mining gold because of political conflicts and transportation difficulties.
What are Nicaragua and Guatemala?
The area between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer
What is the Tropics?
One of the driest places in the world.
What is the Atacama Desert?
One of South Americas longest rivers that runs through Colombia and Venezuela.
This South American country produces the worlds finest emeralds.
What is Colombia?
The reason the tropics are so warm all year round.
Tropical Grasslands that stretch through eastern Colombia and Venezuela
World's longest continental mountain range, that extends from Venezuela to Chile.
What are the Andes Mountains?
The World's highest navigable lake
What is Lake Titicaca?
This South American country is the worlds largest exporter of copper.
What is Chile?
3 of the 5 sub-climate zones found in Latin America.
What are:
- Humid Subtropical
-Mediterranean
-Marine Coastal
-Steppe
-Desert
A group of Islands
What is an Archipelago?
This feature is largely uninhabited between the Andes Mountains and the Brazilian Highlands.
What are the Gran Chacos?
The worlds largest Waterfall, 3,212 ft. tall
What is Angels Falls?
A rocky headland on Hornos Island is the closest spot to Antarctica in South America.
What is Cape Horn?
The 3 groups of Caribbean Islands
What are the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles and the Bahamas?
A steep cliff
What is an Escarpment?
A desert plateau in Argentina and Chile that is divided into two main climate zones: Northern and Southern.
What is Patagonia?
This feature is 5,100 sq. miles and has 467 total islands.
What is Lake Maracaibo?
5 Countries in South America
What are:
-Peru
-Chile
-Colombia
-Ecuador
-Venezuela
-Guyana
-Suriname
-Brazil
-Bolivia
-Uruguay
-Paraguay
-Argentina
-French Guiana
5 Independent Caribbean Island Countries
What are:
-Cuba
-Bahamas
-Jamaica
-Haiti
-Dominican Republic
-Dominica
-St. Kitts and Nevis
-St. Lucia
-St. Vincent and the Grenadines
-Grenada
-Trinidad and Tobago
-Barbados
-Antigua and Barbuda