Inca Empire
This empire stretched 2,500 miles at its peak.
What is the Inca Empire?
The mountain range where the Inca Empire was located.
What are the Andes?
The Spanish term for the "Icy High Elevations" zone.
What is Tierra Helada?
The farming method used to create level land on steep hillsides.
What is terracing?
The world's largest rainforest, located east of the Andes.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
The estimated population of the Inca Empire at its height.
What is 10 million?
The highest navigable lake in the world, located between Peru and Bolivia.
What is Lake Titicaca?
The zone known as "The Pleasant Uplands".
What is Tierra Templada?
These animals are used for wool and as pack animals in high elevations.
What are llamas and alpacas?
The organ that grew larger due to living at high elevation.
What is the lungs?
These two groups, descendants of the Inca, still live in the Andes today.
Who are the Quechua and Aymara?
This desert lies between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Atacama Desert?
The temperature range in the Tierra Fria zone.
What is 55-65 degrees Fahrenheit?
The Andean method of preserving potatoes for years.
What is chuno?
The driest desert in the world, located in South America.
What is the Atacama Desert?
The language spoken by many Inca descendants.
What is Quechua?
The number of climate zones in the Andes based on altitude.
What is four?
The altitude range of the Tierra Templada zone.
What is 3,000-6,000 feet?
The number of potato varieties grown by Andean farmers.
What is hundreds?
This ancient grain is still grown in the highest elevations of the Andes.
What is quinoa?
The rumored hidden treasure in Lake Titicaca.
What is gold?
The highest big city in the world, located in Bolivia.
What is La Paz?
The main crops grown in the Tierra Caliente zone
What are bananas, rice, and sugarcane?
The crop primarily grown in the upper elevations of Tierra Templada.
What is coffee?
The mountain god worshipped by the Inca.
What is apus?