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100
____, the capital of the Dominican Republic, is the largest city in the region.
Santo Domingo
100
The largest country in South America is
Brazil
100
Tierra del Fuego is an island divided between Argentina and
Chile
100
Farming began in South America about _____ years ago.
5,000
100
The Spanish colonies in South America gained their independence between 1810 and _____.
1830
200
More than 2.2 million people live in Havana, which is the capital of
Cuba
200
The Andes are South America's great
mountain range
200
What is the world's largest river in volume?
Amazon
200
The ____ founded South America's greatest early civilization.
Inca
200
____ population has the largest percentage of South American Indians.
Bolivia's
300
Today more Puerto Ricans live in NYC than in _____
Puerto Rico
300
The Guinea Highlands rise in southern
Venezuela
300
The driest region in South America is
the Atacama Desert
300
Francisco Pizarro conquered the _____ Empire.
Inca
300
People in most South American countries speak Spanish, but most Brazilians speak _____
Portuguese.
400
Except for _____, most of the Caribbean countries and territories have market economies.
Cuba
400
What is the largest plain in South America?
Amazon River basin
400
An ocean and weather pattern where the Pacific heats up, thus causing warmer/wetter weather than usual.
El Nino
400
The South American Indian population _____ dramatically during the colonial period.
decreased
400
The cities of Bogota, La Paz, and Quito lie in high ____ valleys.
Andean
500
Jamaica produces nearly all of the world's supply of a seasoning known as
allspice
500
South America's Pampas is a wide area of...
grasslands
500
South America's largest oil reserves are found in
Venezuela
500
Portuguese settlement in South America began in the 1530s along the eastern coast of what is now ____
Brazil
500
The majority of South Americans today are _____ (religion)
Roman Catholics