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 country that came to Venezuela and hoped to find gold and pearls. This country also forced the natives to work to find those valuables.
Spanish
Most Venezuelans speak Spanish but the country's natives speak many different languages. What is that number.
25
What is the organization that helps countries and attempts to control world oil production and keep oil prices from falling too low. Venezuela is one of these countries.
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
What is called when a group of workers stop working until their demands are met.
Strike
What is the Native American name of Guyana that means ________.
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 is the plant that grows in Venezuela that is used to make a deep blue dye.
Indigo
What is Venezuela’s national dance. This dance is a lively foot-stomping couples’ dance. What is the name.
Joropo
What is the highest point in Venezuela that holds many minerals in its peaks. Some of the minerals iron ore for making steel. And Gold which is mined in remote areas of the highlands.
Guiana Highlands
What is a direct vote by the public 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 was the person that helped lead the fight for independence in Venezuela. He is also considered a hero in many South American countries.
Simon Bolívar
What was discovered in the early 1900s in Venezuela. This resources money was kept by the county's leaders. What is this resource called.
Oil
What is the Capital of Venezuela the Capital is the economic and cultural center of the country. It is a large city with a modern subway system, busy expressways, and tall office buildings.
Caracas
What was the date that the president named Hugo Chavez died.
March 5, 2013
What country in South America includes these people South Asians, Africans, Chinese, Indonesians, and Creoles. This country's capital is home to almost half of it's population.
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
What was the year that Venezuela declared its independence.
1830
What is a Venezuelan cowboy that herds cattle on many ranches.
Llaneros
After years of suffering under military dictatorships, the people of Venezuela elected their first president in what year.
1959
What is the place that holds Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are together known as the________.This area is home to many dense tropical rain forests cover much of this region, which lies east of Venezuela.
Guianas
What is the capital of Suriname. The capital is home to half of Suriname's population.
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 was the country that was originally the home of many small tribes of South American Indians. Those groups were conquered by the Spanish in the early 1500s. This country also declared its independence in 1830.
Venezuela
What lake in the Orinoco River region is rich in oil. Venezuela is the only South American member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Lake Maracaibo
What was the President for Venezuela in 2002. This President also started to distribute the country’s oil income equally among all Venezuelans.
Hugo Chavez
Which South American country's name means “land of waters.” About one-third of this country’s population lives in Georgetown, the capital. Nearly all of this country's agricultural lands are located on flat fertile plains along the coast. This country's most important crops are rice and sugarcane.
Guyana
What country is a territory of France and it sends representatives to the government in France. This country has 200,000 people living in its coastal areas. And about two thirds of it's people are of African descent. Other groups of people in this area are European, Asian, and Southern Native Americans. This country also heavily depends on imports for energy.
French Guiana