Category 1
What physical feature do the countries of Pacific South America share?
Andes Mountains
What is the highest lake in the world?
Lake Titicaca
Which empire in this region had 12 million people?
Inca
What is the official language of this region?
Spanish
What religion do most people in the region practice?
Which group of islands in Ecuador has wildlife not found anywhere else in the world?
Galapagos Islands
A narrow strip of water that connects two larger bodies of water.
Strait
What is another name for a governor?
Viceroy
Peru's first people built stone terraces into the steep hillsides to do what?
Farm
La Paz, Sucre
What is a broad, high plateau that lies between the ridges of the Andes Mountains?
Altiplano
An ocean and weather pattern that affects the Pacific Coast and happens every 2-7 years.
El Niño
How many climate zones will you find in the Andes Mountains?
5
American-born descendants of Europeans.
Creoles
What is the capital of Peru?
Lima
Which desert is in Northern Chile and only gets rain every 100 years.
Atacama Desert
Which strait links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans at the southern tip of South America?
Strait of Magellan
What is a sudden overthrow of the government by a small group of people called?
Coup
What is the capital of Chile?
Ecuador has three economic regions: Andean, Coastal, and what?
Amazon
Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile were all independent from Spain by what year?
1825
What is the capital of Ecuador?
Quito
Which country is the poorest in the region?
Bolivia
Which country helped Chile overthrow a communist president?
United States
Which country has the strongest economy in the region?