Where Am I?
The horseshoe-shaped ring of mountains and volcanoes on the edges of the Pacific Ocean.
What is the "Ring of Fire?"
This river begins in the Andes Mountains in Peru and empties into the North Atlantic Ocean in Brazil.
What is the Amazon River?
Name given to the four large islands east of Central America in the Caribbean Sea
What are the Greater Antilles?
In addition to the Maya and Aztec peoples, this ancient civilization made its home in the Peruvian Andes.
What are the Incas?
51 mile man-made waterway that connects the Pacific Ocean to the Carribean Sea.
What is the Panama Canal?
The driest desert on earth
What is the Atacama Desert?
Discovered in the 1500s, this passageway provided a safer route for ships sailing from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Strait of Magellan? (named after the man who discovered it)
Curved archipelago of small islands that reaches from the eastern side of the Greater Antilles to the top of South America
What are the Lesser Antilles?
Name given to the South American cattle-herders that roamed the grasslands, and were remembered for their uncouth, isolationist lifestyles.
What are the "gauchos?"
Diverse region of mountains and steppes, which starts in southern Chile and Argentina and stretches to the southern tip of South America, and which attracts explorers and adventures to explore its rugged beauty.
What is Patagonia?
Angel Falls is located in the Guiana Highlands of this South American country.
What is Venezuela?
Name given to the original perilous route that ships had to take around Cape Horn in order to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Drake Passage?
The largest island in the Greater Antilles
What is Cuba?
This freshwater lake has sharks in it!
What is Lake Nicaragua?
Large expanse of fertile plains east of the Andes Mountains and Patagonia
What is the Pampas?
These Inca ruins in the Peruvian Andes were believed to have been a royal palace or estate.
The body of water that forms the natural border between Bolivia and Peru.
What is Lake Titicaca?
String of islands just southeast of Florida in the Atlantic Ocean.
What are the Bahamas?
Central America has this many countries in it
What are seven countries?
The only two landlocked countries in South America
What are Bolivia and Paraguay?
The second longest river system in South America, beginning in south-central Brazil and joining the Rio de la Plata estuary at the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Rio Parana?
The area around this body of water is one of the richest oil-producing regions in the world.
What is Lake Maracaibo?
Bonus: Islands west of Ecuador, which are home to some of the most unique, isolated species of animals in the world.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
Name given to those in the highest level of society in South America after the Spanish colonized it.
What are the "peninsulares?"
The Amazon rainforest dominates the center of this country
What is Brazil?