stuff to know
mixed bag
kinda important
This could be on the test
hodge podge
100
South America's largest country.
What is Brazil?
100
This is the largest river in South America.
What is The Amazon?
100
This the amount of rainfall South America's tropical rain forest receives every year.
What is 150 inches?
100
This is what is grown in the Tierra Fria Altitudinal zone?
What is barley and potatoes?
100
This is the part of the continent that the Spanish focused on settling.
What is western?
200
The South American mountain range.
What is the Andes?
200
This means hunting lands in Spanish.
What is Gran Chaco?
200
This is the amount of rainfall Iowa receives every year.
What is 40 inches?
200
This is what is grown in the Tierra Helada altitudinal zone.
What is nothing, it is used for sheep grazing?
200
15,000 years ago.
What is when the first humans arrived in South America?
300
High Plateau in Spanish
What is Altiplano?
300
The Amazon river flows for this length.
What is 4000 miles?
300
These are the some of the types of animals that live in the rain forest.
What are Anacondas, monkeys, bats, and jaguars?
300
This is grown in the Tierra Templada zone.
What is coffee, corn, and wheat?
300
disease, slavery, slaughter.
What are some of the ways that the Spanish conquered the native peoples?
400
More than 25 rivers of the altiplano drain here.
What is Lake Titicaca?
400
True or False: Oceangoing vessels can travel up the Amazon for 3500 miles
What is false, only 2300 miles.
400
This is a line of elevation above which trees do not grow.
What is the tree line?
400
This is grown in the Tierra Nevada zone.
What is snow?
400
Large Estates
What are latifundia?
500
The native peoples of Lake Titicaca live on these.
What is floating islands of reeds
500
This is the distance between L.A. and New York City.
What is 2500 miles?
500
An El Nino event does this to South America's western climate.
What is make it warmer and wetter?
500
These are grown in the Tierra Caliente.
What are bananas and sugar cane?
500
This South American country is still a part of France.
What is French Guiana?
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