Amazon River
The Amazon Rainforest produces what percentage of Earth's Oxygen?
What is 20%
The Andes Mountains are located where in South America?
What is "along. the Pacific Coast of South America running North to South?"
The Incas were the only civilization to use animals to complete work. What animal did the Incas use for transportation, food, and clothing?
What is the "llama?"
Inca people organized communities based on groups that had "blood or family relationships" called:
What is "Kinship groups?"
WQho arrived in South America in 1498 and claimed the land for Spain?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The Amazon River covers how many square miles of land in South America?
What is 2.7 million?
What is the length of the Andes Mountains?
What is 5,500 miles?
The Incas were able to grow crops in the mountains by using a method that involved "flat fields cut into slopes or mountainsides" called:
What are "Terraced field?'
The continuous movement of air or water in one direction is called:
What is "current?"
This agreement was signed in 1494 between Spain & Portugal establishing control of the colonization of South America:
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The Amazon Rainforest is located in what part of South America?
What is northwestern South America?
The areas of elevated land in the Andes are called:
What are "highlands?"
In 1532 the Inca Epire was conquered by?
What are Spanish Conquistadors?
This word means "to set someone or something free:
What is "liberate?"
Spain and Portugal maintained control of South America for how many yerar?
What is 300 years?
The Amazon River is considered the largest river in the world by what?
What is "by volume of water carried? "
The Andes Mountains were the home of what great civilization?
Who are the Incas?
The Incas built roads to connect their empire, what else did they build to maneuver over streams?
What are "suspension bridges?"
This word means: "to force to leave the country"
What is "exile?"
The Spanish and Portugese conquistadors had a negative impact o n the indigenous people because:
What is "they brought diseases and enslaved the people?"
Dr. Fernando Trujillo is a arine biologist who studies what?
What are "river dolphins" or the "pink dolphins in Columbia?"
The Andes Mountains created "a dry region on. one side of the mountain range in west-central South America that allowed the Atacama Desert to form:
What is the "rain shadow effect?"
The greatest feat of engineering copleted by the Incas was:
What is "Machu Picchu?"
This word means "the idea of using natural resources in ways that ensure they will continue to be available in the future:"
What is "sustainability?"
In 1793, this man led the movement to liberate South America from Spain and Portugal and was exiled to Jamaica:
Who is Simon Bolivar?