Level 1
Well-maintained _________ were vital to holding together the Incan empire.
Roads
The _________ Desert extends along Peru's 1,500-mile coast.
Long
Hiram Bingham announced the existence of _________, an ancient Incan city, in 1911.
Machu Pichu
Brazil processes _________ to make ethanol.
Sugarcane
Argentina's capital is the largest port in South America.
Buenos Aires
Argentina captured and lost the _________ Islands to Great Britain in 1982.
Falkland
Venezuela's economy depends heavily on the export of _________.
Oil
Chile's capital is also its largest city.
Santiago
The _________ Desert is the driest desert in the world.
Atacama
_________ kings covered themselves with gold for the ceremony of El Dorado.
Muisca
_________ wanted to create a large, free country in South America, earning him the nickname El Libertador.
Simón Bolívar
_________ was the conquistador who enslaved indigenous people in Peru.
Francisco Pizarro
The _________ is the largest mountain chain outside of Asia.
Andes
Brazil built this capital city inland to attract people away from the coast.
Brasiliana
Dictator Hugo _________ created a socialist state in Venezuela in which he held limitless power.
Chavez
The capital of Peru is in the Long Desert.
Lima
Tierra del Fuego is an island whose name means "_________."
Land of Fire
Gauchos were horsemen from _________ who cared for cattle.
Argentina
Chile defeated both Peru and Bolivia and captured land in the War of the _________.
Pacific
The Gran _________ is a hot, arid plain with few inhabitants.
Chaco
Only the Nile River is longer than the 3,900-mile-long _________ River.
Amazon
The world's largest wetland is the _________ in Brazil.
Ecuador's _________ Islands support an amazing variety of plants and animals.
Galapagos
Brazil's largest city is the world's sixth largest city.
Sao Paulo
More than half the population of _________ died during the Paraguayan War.
Paraguay