Section 1
Which country has the highest point in the Caribbean South America region, and is larger than California and Texas combined?
Colombia
Some of the Guiana Highlands' steep-sided plateaus are capped by erosion-resistant sandstone layers. These strange flat-topped structures are known as what?
Tepuís
Which area receives year-round rain, feeding the forest's massive trees and generating a canopy so dense that sunlight hardly penetrates to the jungle floor?
Amazon Basin
What is the name of the colonial city that served as a key naval and commercial port for the Spanish Empire?
Cartagena
Which nation has the most population in Caribbean South America?
Colombia
what was the of the people who came to Venezuela hoping to find gold and pearls. They forced the native Indians to search for these treasures, but they finally realized there was little to be found.
Spanish
Venezuela country Indians speak how many different languages and follow the religious practices of their ancestors.
25
what is the name of the organization that attempts to control world oil production and keep oil prices from falling too low. and Venezuela is the only South American member of this Organization
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
what is it called when a group of workers stopping work until their demands are met.
Strike
what does the word Guyana mean
Land of Waters
Which location within western Colombia has an elevation of 18,000 feet (5,490 meters)?
Andes
Venzuela's elevation drops between the highlands and the Andes. This area of plains is largely grassland with a few trees. These plains are prone to flooding due to their low elevation and lack of vegetation. What is this area known as?
Llanos
What are the principal crops grown in the Caribbean and South America?
rice, coffee, bananas, and sugarcane
People in Central and South America began fighting for independence from Spain in the late 18th century. What resulted after achieving independence?
The Republic of Gran Colombia
What is the name of the capital of Colombia, which is perched high in the eastern Andes?
Bogotá
what was the name of the blue diy that was very hard to harvest.
Indigo
what is the name of the dance that is a lively foot stomping couples’ dance
Joropo
what is the name of the Highlands that are in the southeast are rich in other minerals, such as iron ore for making steel. Gold is also mined in remote areas of the highlands.
Guiana Highlands
what is the movement where a direct vote by the public, to remove the president from office called
Referendum
what is the capital of guyana.
georgetown
What is the name for a mountain system composed of generally parallel ranges?
Cordillera
What is the name of the region's longest river, which flows roughly 1,600 miles (2,575 kilometers)?
Orinoco River
What are the names of the valuable resources of the Caribbean South America?
oil, iron ore, and coal
Which nations were part of Gran Colombia?
Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela
What is the name of a traditional Chibcha ring-toss game?
Tejo
who lead a fight against spanish rule and considerd a hero.
Simon Bolívar
Venezuelans have
made money in the country’s blank industry. In addition, Venezuela’s government has also benefited from blank wealth.
Oil
what is the name Venezuela’s capital and the economic and cultural center of the country.
Caracas
what was the year that Hugo Chavez died.
March 5, 2013
what has a diverse population. The country’s population includes South Asians, Africans, Chinese,Indonesians, and Creoles—people of mixed heritage.
Suriname
Which country on the Caribbean coast is located in the midst of the South American region?
Venezuela
The Orinoco and its tributaries drain the Andean plains and highlands. What are the names of those tributaries?
The Cauca and the Magdalena
What other title did El Dorado's mythology go by?
Golden One
What resulted with the dissolution of the Republic of Gran Colombia in 1830?
New Granada
What do members of an irregular military unit go by?
Guerrillas
Venezuela did not officially become independent until what year
1830
what is the name of the Venezuelan cowboys that herd cattle on the many ranches of the Llanos region. However, some small communities of Indians practice traditional agriculture.
Llaneros
what was the year that Venezuela elected their first president
1959
what is the name of countries of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are together known as the blank.
Guianas
what is the name of the capital that is
home to nearly half of surinames people.
Paramaribo
Where is Venezuela's highest elevation located, which extends into Guyana and Suriname?
Guiana Highlands
What's the name of a landscape that thrives in southern Colombia's humid tropical climate?
Rain forests
The legend of El Dorado revolved around a gold-rich land. What culture in Colombia originated this myth?
Chibcha
Which nations were part of New Granada?
Colombia and Panama
The majority of guerrillas cultivate illegal crops. What is the name of the plant that produces the hazardous narcotic cocaine?
Coca plant
what is the name of the country that became independent In 1830 and Venezuelans suffered from dictatorships and civil wars.
Venezuela
what is the name of the lake that is rich in oil.
Lake Maracaibo
2002 Venezuela’s president, started to distribute the country’s oil income equally among all Venezuelans. what was the name of the president.
Hugo Chavez
what is the name that comes from a South American Indian word that means “land of waters.”
Guyana
what is the name of a territory of France and sends representatives to the government in Paris.
blank roughly 200,000 people live mostly in coastal areas.
French Guiana