The number of countries known as the Andean countries.
What is 6?
A group of mountain chains that run side by side.
What is a cordillera?
The high plateau region of the Andes.
What is altiplano?
A cereal grain grown in Bolivia.
What is quinoa?
Substance from tree bark used in turning hides into leather.
What is tannin?
The capital of Argentina.
What is Buenos Aires?
The large, grassy plains regions of Latin America.
What are llanos?
Describing a body of water wide and deep enough for ships to pass.
What is navigable?
Mineral used in making fertilizer and explosives.
What is sodium nitrate?
A large ranch in Argentina.
What is estancia?
Bolivia's TWO capitals.
What are La Paz and Sucre?
Crops that are grown to be sold, often for export.
What are cash crops?
A group of lands or states under the rule of one nation or ruler.
What is an empire?
Chile's most important mineral resource.
What is copper?
In southern South America, a cowhand on horseback (like a cowboy).
What is a gaucho?
A country with a narrow coastline.
What is Chile?
A farmer in Latin America.
What is campesino?
Ecuador's major mineral export.
What is petroleum?
The region that holds most of Chile's farms.
What is Central Chile?
What is the Central Valley?
The most important agricultural products of Argentina.
(Name at least one)
What is beef, corn and wheat?
The highest peak in the Americas.
What is Mount Aconcagua in South America?
Columbia's main export.
What is coffee?
The climate found in the eastern lowlands of Peru and Ecuador.
What is a tropical rain forest?
Mineral resources found in Bolivia.
(Name at least three)
What is: tin, copper, lead, nitrates, zinc, natural gas, and/or silver?
The major religion of Argentina.
What is Roman Catholic?