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Geography of S. America
HODGE PODGE
100
What is the name of the longest river in South America?
What is AMAZON RIVER
100
Largest country in South America.
What is BRAZIL
100
What famous person is known for conquering the Incan Empire? What country did he come from?
Who is Francisco Pizarro and he came from SPAIN.
100
What mountain range located in South America is the longest continental mountain range in South America and in the world
What is ANDES MOUNTAINS
100
What two culture groups make up a mestizo person?
What is European and Indian
200
The highest waterfall in the world that is located in South America.
What is ANGEL FALLS
200
Which two countries in South America are world leaders on coffee production?
What is Brazil and Columbia
200
What physical feature of South America is large, flat grassland, and makes up the central and western portions of Argentina?
What is The Pampas
200
In the Amazon Rainforest trees are being cut down making the forest smaller is known as what?
What is Deforestation.
200
Why are Spanish and Portuguese the major languages spoken in South America?
What is there is a large population of Spanish and Portuguese people that live there. They migrated from Spain and Portugal.
300
The largest rainforest in the world. It is located in South America.
What is THE AMAZON RAINFOREST
300
What is the official language of South America?
What is PORTUGESE
300
In what two hemispheres is South America located?
What is the Southern and the Western
300
The pollution of the Amazon River and its tributaries directly affect what important physical feature of South America?
What is THE AMAZON RAINFOREST
300
In the Amazon Rainforest trees are being cut down making the forest smaller. What is this called?
What is DEFORESTATION
400
Element of physical geography that runs along the entire coast of South America.
What is THE ANDES MOUNTAINS
400
In what River Basin are the Llanos in South America located? in between what two countries are they located?
What is THE ORINOCO RIVER BASIN VENEZUELA AND COLUMBIA
400
Before the Europeans came to colonize parts of South America, there was a large population of these indigenous people?
What is INCANS
400
What desert in South America is known as the driest place on Earth? What two countries is it primarily located in?
What is ATACAMA DESERT CHILE and PERU
400
South America is located in the ___________ Hemisphere. South America is located between the _________Ocean and the ______Ocean.
What is Southern/Western Pacific/Atlantic
500
Tropical Grasslands that are located in the Orinoco River Basin between Venezuela and Columbia?
What is The Llanos
500
Longest country is South America
What is Chile
500
Venezuela's economy is based mostly on what type of industry?
What is OIL
500
Most of Brazil's population live along the coastline of which ocean?
What is the Atlantic Ocean
500
What does is mean to be landlocked? Name two landlocked countries in South America.
What is it does not border the ocean. The land is completely surrounded by land. Bolivia and Paraguay