Lesson 1
This is the clearing of trees.
What is deforestation?
They feel that this is more than a game, it makes them Brazilian.
What is soccer?
This country's definition is "the land of silver" or "the silvery one".
What is Argentina?
This is the capital of Columbia.
What is Bogota?
This language is the most common in Pacific South America.
What is Spanish?
This is an enclosed body of water where fresh water mixes with sea water.
What is an estuary?
This is the nations poorest region.
What is the Northeast?
These people are called Argentine cowboys.
What are gauchos?
This is the capital of Venezuela.
What is Carcas?
This Spanish explorer captured the Inca King and later killed him.
Who is Fransisco Pizarro?
This region includes four countries: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay.
What is Atlantic South America?
This country was the last to end slavery.
What is Brazil?
What is Montevideo?
These are 2 popular sports in Venezuela?
What is baseball and soccer?
This religion is practice by most people in Pacific South America.
What is Roman Catholicism?
This makes farming difficult in the region of Pacific South America.
What is arid land?
Hunting, Fishing, and Small Scale Farming.
What are the 3 things that Brazilian life was based on?
What is agriculture?
These people captured most of the Chibcha people.
What is the Spanish?
This country elected their first female president in 2006.
What is Chile?
This had the biggest effect on climate and vegetation in the Pacific South American region.
What is elevation?
Brazil gained independence from Portugal in this year.
What is 1822?
This is an Indian language that is spoken in Paraguay.
What is Guarani?
This made it difficult to reunite Columbia.
What is outbreaks of violence and rugged geography?
This country had a terrorist group called the Shining Path that was active in the 1980's and 1990's.
What is Peru?