Vocab
What is indigo and where does it come from?
A plant used to make a deep blue dye.
What climate is the tierra caliente?
This would be the hot country.
Colombia is the most populous country in South America. True or False?
True
What year did Christopher Columbus land on the Venezuelan coast?
1492
1486
1498
1471
1498
This form of language is heavily present in these region.
Pidgin language.
What is a tepuís?
Layers of sandstone that have resisted erosion atop plateaus in the Guiana Highlands.
What temperature is the tierra helada?
This means frozen country.
What is one of the main valuable resources within Colombia?
Coffee, corn, bananas, rice, and sugarcane.
By the 1970s, Venezuela was earning hugs sums of money from which natural resource?
Oil
What is the capital of Suriname?
Paramaribo
What is a Caudillos?
Military leaders who ruled Venezuela in the 1800s and 1900s.
What is the name of rodent that lives along lakes and rivers in wet tropical climates?
The capybara.
What is the biggest sport in Colombia?
Soccer
What is the capital of Venezuela?
Caracas
The French Guiana had an island that was used to hold prisoners. True or False
True
What is a Llaneros?
Cowboys of the Venezuelan Llanos.
What temperature is the tierra fría?
This would be the cold country.
What is the name of the tropical plant with starchy roots that is an important food crop?
Cassava
More than two thirds of Venezuelan population are this.
Pardos
What are the two most important economic activities within the French Guiana?
Forestry and Shrimp.
What is an indentured servant?
People who agree to work for a certain period of time, often in exchange for travel expenses.
Name one of the remarkable animals that are present within the Orinoco.
Answers can be piranhas, catfish, and crocodiles.
Within Colombia, what is the name of the Chibcha game that they play?
Tejo, it is a ringtoss game.
What is the name of the lively foot-stomping couples dance?
About two thirds of the of the population of Guyana are descendants from African slaves. True or False?
False one third