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100
This is the only South American country to speak Portuguese.
What is Brazil?
100
This is the world's highest waterfall located in the Guiana Highlands.
What is Angel Falls?
100
The Amazon river flows through this huge, low region.
What is the Amazon River Basin?
100
The plant from which chocolate is made
What is cacao?
100
Surrounded by land
What is Landlocked.
200
This South American country connects to Central America. Its capital is Bogota.
What is Columbia?
200
On of the worlds largest rivers.
What is the Amazon?
200
Rain forest cover these high hills. This region has a tropical climate and the world's largest waterfall.
What is the Guiana Highlands?
200
To move goods in or out of a country illegally, often without paying taxes.
What is smuggle?
200
A long step cut into a slope to create level land for farming.
What is a terrace.
300
This small South American country was colonized by the Dutch.
What is Suriname?
300
These two South American Countries are landlocked.
What are Bolivia and Paraguay?
300
This rugged chain of peaks stretches more than 5,000 miles. Many of them are higher that 22k feet tall.
What is the Andes Mountains?
300
Watering of dry farm land by means of ditches or pipes.
What is irrigation?
300
A structure that carries water from one place to another.
What is an Aqueduct?
400
The equator passes through this country who's capital is Quito.
What is Ecuador?
400
These cowboys are found working on the Pampas, or grasslands, of Argentina?
Who are the Gauchos?
400
Gentle hills and high, flat areas mark this region.
What is the Brazilian Highlands?
400
A group of countries under a single ruler.
What is an empire?
400
A knotted string used by the Incas to keep records.
What is a Quipu?
500
The main language of this small South American country is English.
What is Guyana?
500
This ancient culture ruled much of South America from the 1200's till 1532.
Who are the Incas?
500
Flat lands covered with grass.
What is the Pampas?
500
A person who has both Spanish and American Indian ancestry?
Who is a mestizo?