This geographic feature stretches nearly the entire width of South America.
What is the Amazon River Basin?
100
These are the two main crops African slaves cultivated in South America.
What is coffee and sugar cane?
100
This Treaty of Tordesillas divided the newly discovered land between these two countries.
What is Spain and Portugal?
100
Due to the changes in elevation, the Inca used this farming method.
What is terraced fields?
100
The Andes Mountains prevents moist winds from reaching this country's coast, making this country's Atacama Desert one of the driest places in the world.
What is Chile?
200
This is a description of the climate of the Andes Mountains.
What is cold/cool and dry.
200
This traps heat energy causing the Earth to warm.
What is a greenhouse gas?
200
This area of South America has a reliable food source partly due to its fertile soil. People have lived in this area of South America for thousands of years.
What is the lowlands?
200
This is the simplest way of life. Humans have lived this type of lifestyle the majority of the time they have been on Earth.
What is hunter-gatherer?
300
In this type of farming, people only grow enough food to feed themselves.
What is subsistence farming?
300
They Aymara, an indigenous people, still use traditional farming methods like herding these animals.
What are llamas and alpacas?
300
80% of South America's people practice this religion.
What is Catholicism?
300
This crop if very profitable in Argentina. It requires little fertilizer and can be used in a variety of ways.
What are soybeans?
300
This agricultural product has enabled Brazil to become one of the world's leading producers of ethanol.
What is sugar cane?
400
This is a smaller river that empties in a larger river.
What is a tributary?
400
These two land features kept the indigenous people from the Europeans. These land features helped to protect indigenous languages.
What are mountains and rain forests?
400
Children in these areas have the least opportunity to receive a public education in South America.
What are rural areas?
400
This type of crop is grown in Chile and prospers because of Chile's mild climate. 40% of the overall crop is exported to the United States.
What is fruit?
400
The explosive population growth in Sao Paulo has contributed to more and more people living in favelas. This term is the English equivalent for favela.
What is slum?
500
Native Americans used this method to clear the rain forest for farming.
What is slash and burn?
500
These are the most common European languages spoken in South America.
What are Spanish and Portuguese?
500
This country elected its first Quechua president in 2001.
What is Peru?
500
The government has changed in policies and allowed private ownership of these is Peru. This is one of the reasons why this industry has become much more profitable.
What is mining/mines?
500
This is the first South American city to host the Olympics (Summer 2016).