Section 1
Which country is larger than California and Texas combined. They are also great for planting coffee?
Colombia
What is the name of a flat-topped formation which are sometimes called?
Tepuís
What sit eh name of a massive drainage system in South America?
Amazon Basin
What is the name of a major naval base and commercial port in the Spanish empire.
Cartagena
What is the name of a country that has Giant mounds of earth, mysterious statues, and tombs?
Colombia
On the western side of Colombia and can reach 18,000 feet (5,490 m)?
Andes
What do you call when elevation drops between the highlands and the Andes, This region of plains is known as?
Llanos
What is the name of Caribbean South America major crops?
rice, coffee, bananas, and sugarcane
After Central and South America got independence from Spain What name was created?
The Republic of Gran Colombia
What is the name of Colombia capital?
Bogotá
What is the name of a mountain system made up of roughly parallel ranges?
Cordillera
What is the name of the regions longest river which is (2,575km)?
Orinoco River
What is the name of the region valuable resources?
oil, iron ore, and coal
What countries were included in the Grant Colombia?
Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela
What is the name of a ring-toss game played by the Chibcha?
Tejo
Which country is located in the middle of the region?
Venezuela
What is the name of two important rivers in the world that drain the Andean region?
The Cauca and the Magdalena
What is the name of a legend about a land rich in gold was inspired by the Chibcha culture in Colombia?
Golden One
In 1830 the republic dissolved, and What was created?
New Granada
What is the name of the members of an irregular military force?
Guerrillas
Venezuela’s highest elevation which strech into Guyana and Suriname?
Guiana Highlands
What is the name of another type of landscape, that thrives in the humid tropical climate of southern Colombia?
Rain forests
What is the name of a tribe that covered their new rulers in gold dust?
Chibcha
What countries included in New Granada?
Colombia and Panama
What is the name of a plant use to make cocaine and drugs?
Coca plant