Terms
Landforms
History
South America Today
Extras
100
A chain of high plateaus
What is a tepuis?
100
Amazon
What is the 4,000 mile long river in South America?
100
Inca
What is the ancient civilization that was located in Western South America?
100
All of the countries in South America have ______ economies.
What is market?
100
There are 12 countries in South America and one French territory called____.
What is French Guiana?
200
A country that has no border on the ocean
What is landlocked?
200
The Amazon River dilutes ocean water for ____ miles.
What is 100?
200
Leader of the Incan empire
Who was Atalhualpa?
200
Mercosur
What is the Southern Common Market that was created to expand trade in South America?
200
Name 3 animals that are native to South America.
What are jaguars, bats, & monkeys?
300
El Nino
What is warming of the water in the Pacific Ocean?
300
This mountain range spans the entire Western coast of South America.
What is the Andes?
300
Treaty of Tordesilla
What is the treaty that divided the world at the 34th paralell line, allowing the Spanish to explore west and the Portuguese to explore east?
300
Suriname has a large population of _____.
What is Indians?
300
17,000 sq. miles
What is the amount of forests that are cut down every year in the Amazon?
400
Latifundia
What is a large estate?
400
The collision of the ___ and South American plates created the Andes.
What is the Nazca?
400
Francisco Pizarro
Who was the Spanish conquistador that conquered the Incan empire?
400
This country is the world's leading producer of coffee.
What is Brazil?
400
Name the 4 countries that are members of Mercosur?
What are Argentina, Brazil, Uraguay, & Paraguay?
500
buffer state
What is a small country between two or more powerful countries?
500
At its peak the Andes mountains reaches over _____ ft.
What is 22,000?
500
The king of Portugal that moved the Brazil in 1808 and stayed until 1822.
Who was John VI?
500
___ % of the population of Argentina is European.
What is 97?
500
Argentina specializes in producing wheat &____.
What is beef?
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