The Galápagos Islands
These massive reptiles can weigh 500 lbs and live for over 150 years.
What are Giant Tortoises?
These two legendary athletes made Argentina world-famous for the sport of soccer (fútbol).
Who are Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona?
Brazil is the only country in South America where the people speak this language.
What is Portuguese?
This "Lost City" was built by the Inca on top of a mountain ridge 8,000 feet in the air.
What is Machu Picchu?
This imaginary line splits the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
Because they were never connected to the mainland, these islands were actually formed by underwater
What are Volcanoes?
This is the name for a "Cowboy" from the flat grasslands of Argentina.
What is a Gaucho?
This massive rainforest is nicknamed the "Lungs of the Planet" because it produces so much oxygen.
What is the Amazon?
Since they had no alphabet, the Inca used these colored, knotted strings to keep records.
What are Quipus?
This is the name of the longest mountain range in the world, which runs down the side of South America.
What are the Andes?
This animal is the only one of its kind that dives in the ocean to find food (seaweed).
What is the Marine Iguana?
In Argentina, a massive all-day barbecue where meat is cooked over an open fire is called an __________.
What is an Asado?
This 5-day festival in Rio de Janeiro is the world's biggest party and features the Samba dance.
What is Carnival?
This small animal is a pet in the U.S., but it is a traditional "shock" food in Peru called Cuy.
What is a Guinea Pig?
This 500-year-old "line on a map" split the continent between Spain and Portugal
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This scientist visited the islands in 1835 and realized that bird beaks change over time to help them survive.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This city is the southernmost city in the world and is nicknamed "The End of the World."
What is Ushuaia?
This Brazilian martial art looks like a dance and was created by people who needed to hide their fighting skills.
What is Capoeira?
These were the elite relay runners who carried messages across the Inca Empire on foot.
Who are the Chasquis?
This force causes water and hurricanes to spin in different directions on either side of the Equator.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
To save the tortoises, the government had to remove thousands of these invasive animals that were eating all the grass.
What are Goats?
Because it is in the Southern Hemisphere, Argentina celebrates this holiday in the middle of a hot summer.
What is Christmas?
These are the crowded, colorful hillside neighborhoods found in big cities like Rio.
What are Favelas?
To farm on steep mountains, the Inca built these "giant green staircases."
What are Terraces?
This is the 66-mile stretch of swamp and jungle where the Pan-American Highway stops because it is too dangerous to build a road
What is the Darien Gap?