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100
This is the longest river in Caribbean SA.
What is the Orinoco River?
100
The largest river system in the world is located in the northern part of South America.
What is the Amazon River?
100
This is the strait that links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Strait of Magellan?
100
This term describes the tops of the trees in the rain forest that look like a giant umbrella.
What is a canopy?
100
This is a region in southern Argentina that has a cool desert climate.
What is Patagonia?
200
This region has grasslands and plains, but few trees.
What are the Llanos?
200
This describes what happens when the soil becomes infertile due to loss of nutrients needed by plants.
What is soil exhaustion?
200
Gold, silver, zinc are resources in this landlocked country of Pacific SA.
What is Bolivia?
200
The highest mountain peak in the Andes
What is Mount Aconcagua?
200
This body of water was recently entered into the Guiness Book of Records for having the most lightning strikes.
What is Lake Maricaibo?
300
This area of land is a territory of France.
What is French Guiana?
300
Cutting down trees and not planting replacements causes this condition.
What is deforestation?
300
This country covers about half of South America's Pacific coast.
What is Chile?
300
There are mountains and forests at this level where coffee is also grown.
What is the second elevation zone?
300
This country along the Pacific is named after the Equator.
What is Ecuador?
400
This is Venezuela's highest elevation that stretches into Guyana and Suriname.
What are the Guiana Highlands?
400
This region of wide grassy plains is located in central Argentina.
What are the Pampas?
400
This is an ocean weather pattern that affects the Pacific Coast.
What is El Nino?
400
These two crops grow at the lowest level of the Andes where it is hot and humid.
What are sugar cane and bananas?
400
This region of Argentina is very good for farming.
What are the Pampas?
500
This refers to system of parallel mountain ranges.
What is a cordillera?
500
This is an example of an estuary where two bodies of water merge together, and fresh water mixes with salt water.
What is the Rio de la Plata?
500
This land form is a broad high plateau located between the ridges of the Andes.
What is the altiplano?
500
This has the biggest effect on climate and vegetation in Pacific SA.
What is elevation?
500
In this dry region, rain falls less than 5 times in a century, but it is often foggy.
What is the Atacama Desert?