Vocab
The fertile grasslands found in inland areas of Columbia and Venezuela.
What is Llanos?
South America has the world's largest mountain chain in the world. This chain is called..
What is the Andes?
Crops the highlands (colder climates) mostly subside (produce).
What is Potato, barley, and quinoa crops?
The households of upper and middle class families usually consist of these people.
Who are the Father, mother, and dependent children?
This type of environmental activity occurs around lakes, river, and along coast lines.
The parallel chains or ranges of mountains.
What is Cordillera?
The world’s second longest river is about 4,000 miles long and runs through South America. The name of this river is...
What is the Amazon River?
The climate subregions in South America.
What are Steamy rainforests, arid deserts, grassy plains, and sandy beaches?
Most countries are supporting public education through high school causing literacy rates to..
What is rise?
These are the three main activities that employed and fed the people of South America.
What is fishing, ranching, and farming?
The grassy, treeless plains of southern South America.
What is Pampas?
The two South American inland grasslands.
What are the llanos, pampas?
Certain phenomenon affects the climate of South America as well as Central America and the Caribbean.
What is El Nino?
The first Europeans in South America were..
What are the Spanish and Portuguese?
South America's contribution to agricultural global trade consists of includes these resources.
What are grains, soybeans, coffee, cocoa, citrus, cattle, sugarcane, tobacco ,and cotton?
A steep cliff or slope between a higher and lower land surface.
What is Escarpment?
Activity in the subregion that changes and reshapes the landscape.
What is Heavy Tectonic activity?
The ______ and the _____ are the highest vertical climate zones located above the treeline, and are zones of what kind of weather.
What is the Tierra Halada, Puna, permanent snow and ice?
This indigenous group stretched from present day Ecuador to central Chile.
Who are the Inca?
Brazil and Paraguays largest and fastest growing crop is.
What are soybeans?
Spanish for “high plain,” a region in Peru and Bolivia encircled by the Andes.
What is Altiplano?
South America has some of the largest lakes in the world. One runs through Venezuela and the other through Bolivia and Peru. The names of these two lakes are...
What are the Lake Maracaibo and Lake Titicaca?
The temperature climate of the Tierra Templada is found in areas of...
What are Brazil, Peru, Columbia?
Towns in the lake regions of southern Chile exhibit architecture, cuisine, and traditions influenced by this population.
The Germans.
South America has these natural resources.
What are timber, gold, silver, copper, iron ore, and tin?