Brazil Rainforest
The world's second-longest river, winding almost 4,000 miles from the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Amazon River?
Brazil's coastal major city with 11.2 million people.
What is Rio de Janeiro?
This mountain range towers over the western part of Argentina.
What are the Andes?
The major city which 3.4 million people live in Uruguay, which is also it's capital city.
What is Montevideo?
The largest lake in South America.
What is Lake Maracaibo?
In this area, rainfall can reach about 120 inches per year.
What is the Amazon Basin?
One of Brazil's fastest-growing urban areas in the world and is its leading trade and industrial center with more than 18.5 million people.
What is Sao Paulo?
The highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Aconcagua?
A great forest area which takes of two-thirds of Paraguay.
What is Gran Chaco?
The capital and largest city in Venezuela.
What is Caracas?
Thick rainforests that grow through the support of these heavy rains.
What are selvas?
Surrounding many Brazilian cities, these areas are often referred to as slum areas.
What are favelas?
A dry, windswept plateau south and east of the Andes.
What is Patagonia?
The dam in which Paraguay has the world's largest hydroelectric power generator.
What is the Itaipu Dam?
Grassy plains in Venezuela that have ranches, farms and oil fields.
What are llanos?
This area covers half of the country and then drops sharply into the Atlantic Ocean.
What are the Brazilian Highlands?
The act of destroying large areas of forests.
Most of the country's factories are in or near this major city.
What is Buenos Aires?
The religion the majority of Paraguayans practice.
What is the Roman Catholic faith?
The military rulers that governed Venezuela during the 1800s and 1900s.
What are the caudillos?
The drop created by the Brazilian Highlands.
What is the Great Escarpment?
These areas give off huge amounts of oxygen and regulate the earth's climate making the acts of deforestation be felt worldwide.
What are tropical forests?
An area of land Argentina suffered defeat for control of in a war with the United Kingdom.
What are the Falkland Islands?
The largest and capital city of Paraguay.
What is Asuncion?
What is Britain?