Life in the Region
This type of crops are grown primarily to be sold for money
This word is used to describe how much distance a location is above sea level
What is Elevation?
This type of Climate region can be described as a warm rolling grassland with Scattered treess
What is a Tropical Savannah?
This river is the 2nd longest River in the world and runs primarily through South America
What is the Amazon River?
When one nation takes control of a far away area and sets up a government?
This type of ruler shares their power and listens to everyone's ideas before making a decision
What is a Democratic Ruler?
This type of Landform can be described as a high flat area of land
What is a Plateau?
This type of Climate region can be described as a hot, wet, thick, forest
What is a Tropical Rainforest?
These 8 countries are the only South American Countries that Border the Atlantic Ocean
What is Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina?
Before the arrival of Europeans, this is how many indigenous people were estimated to live in South America
This type of ruler holds total unlimited power over a country
What is a Dictator?
This South American Landform can be described as a Forest Region that sits on top of a high flat area of land, or plateau.
What are the Guiana Highlands?
This type of climate can be found throught all of the Tropical North of South America and can be described as having warm temperatures throughout the year. It's name also shares a similarity with a notable Orange Juice company.
What is a Tropical Climate?
This River in the Tropical North has more than 400 waterways
What is the Orinoco River?
This rebel group, from Suriname, is made up of the decendants of escaped enslaved people
Who are the Maroons?
A variety of these two physical geography terms allow for both Bananas and Coffee to be grown in Colombia
What are differing elevations and climates?
This South American Landform can be described as a Mountain range that stretches along the entire Western Boundary of South America
What is the Andes Mountain Range?
This amount of rainfall is typical in an area that has a tropical monsoon climate
What is Heavy Rainfall?
These 4 countries are the only countries in the South America that Border the Pacific Ocean
What are Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile?
This system allowed for Spanish people to demand forced labor from Indigenous South Americans
What was the Encomienda system?
This South American country is the top producer of it's continent
What is Venezuela?
This South American Landform can be described as a Narrow Lowland Grassy Plain that is located in Venezuela and Colombia
What is the Llanos?
This South American Landform would likely have the coldest climate because of it's high elevation
What is the Andes Mountain Range?
This type of waterway can be described as the area that water drains into
What is a Basin?
This Spanish Aristocrat led a major Revolution against the Spanish during the 1800s
Who is Simon Bolivar?