Home to the Amazon Rainforest, this bird has feathers of a rainbow.
What is a scarlet macaw?
100
South America is a country.
What is FALSE?
South America is a CONTINENT.
100
Also known as a ceiba (SAY-BAH) tree. A large tropical tree with large pods of silky floss used for making mattresses and life preservers.
What is the Kapok tree?
200
This is a long shaped country in South America. Hint: It is not pronounced like something we eat!
What is Chile?
200
This is the capital of Colombia.
What is Bogota?
200
This amphibian usually has bright red eyes, a green body, and yellow feet.
What is the red-eyed tree frog?
200
The most commonly spoken language in South America is Spanish.
What is FALSE?
Portuguese is the most spoken language in South America, followed by Spanish, which is the official language of most countries.
200
The bottom layer of plants and especially the trees and shrubs between the forest canopy and the ground cover.
What is the understory?
300
This is South America's second largest country.
What is Argentina?
300
This is the capital of Brazil.
What is Brasilia?
300
Usually dappled in spots, this large feline creeps through the jungle catching their prey with their camouflage fur coat.
What is a jaguar?
300
In South America, each country has its own currency (money).
What is TRUE?
There are actually 14 currencies (types of money) in South America!
300
A fine, yellowish powder released from the anthers of flowers. Grains of pollen are carried by insects, wind, etc., to the pistils of flowers fertilize them.
What is pollen?
400
South America consists of 12 countries and three overseas territories. Name at least 2 overseas territories.
What is the 1. Falkland Islands, 2. the South Georgia & The South Sandwich Islands, and 3. French Guiana (Guyane)?
400
This is the capital of Paraguay.
What is Asunción?
400
Making their home in the Amazon rain forest, these slithering creatures eat amphibious animals, like frogs & toads, as well as fish, caiman, birds, ducks and turtles.
What is an anaconda?
400
South America is home to over 380 million people.
What is TRUE?
387,489,196 to be close :)
Compare it to the United States: 313,914,040
400
All of the surrounding that influence the growth, development and well-being of a living thing.
What is environment?
500
Most of South America is located in this hemisphere, although it also occupies other hemispheres.
What is the Southern Hemisphere?
Keep in mind, South America simultaneously occupies the Southern, Western, and part of the Northern hemispheres.
500
This is the capital of Uruguay.
What is Montevideo?
500
This animal often dangles from trees, and within its' name is another animal that has 8 legs.
What is a spider monkey?
500
South America is mostly a jungle and a rain forest.
What is FALSE?
Through yours and your peers research, you have found that there is SO much more to be found in South America than jungles and rain forests! However, Brazil is home to the biggest tropical rainforest in the world – The Amazon!
500
Often left after a building or wall has fallen to pieces; the remains.