Key Terms and Vocab
This term is used to describe the variety of life in a particular habitat.
What is biodiversity?
What is the most popular spoken language in South America? Most popular religion? Must get both!
What is Spanish/Roman Catholic.
This city is often seen as the cultural capital of Brazil?
What is Rio de Janiero?
Which of the following is NOT one of the Southern Cone countries
A. Argentina
B. Ecuador
C. Chile
D. Uruguay
B. Ecuador
The (debatable) largest river in the world, located primarily in Brazil
What is the Amazon River
Low-income neighborhoods located in Brazil
What are favelas
This indigenous empire was conquered by Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro?
What are the Inca?
Which city in Brazil is the center of trade and industry in the country?
What is Sao Paulo?
What is the name for the semi-arid region of Argentina famed for its mountains, ice sheets and glaciers.
What is Patagonia?
This mountain range runs along the western coast of South America
What are the Andes Mountains?
This term is used to describe cities that is disproportionately larger than any other in the country.
What is a primate city?
This treaty divided colonial South America between Spanish and Portuguese control.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Brazil became a major colonial exporter of this lucrative crop.
What is sugar?
What is European descent?
This major desert in Chile sees some of the smallest amount of rainfall in the world.
What is the Atacama Desert?
This is a phenomenon that occurs when a mountain range blocks the passage of rain-producing weather systems, creating a dry area downwind of the mountain
What is the rain-shadow effect?
This cultural region of South America is home to the highest percentage of people of mixed European/Amerindian descent?
What is Mixed Mestizo Region?
What city, located in the Amazon Rainforest, became a hub for rubber trading and other exports in the region?
What is Manaus?
Headquartered in Montevideo, this is the international South American trade organization.
What is Mercosur?
This region of Argentina is famed for its grasslands and cattle farming.
What is the Pampas?
This is the term used to describe the longest leg of the Triangular Trade where Africans were brought to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
This freedom fighter and revolutionary helped inspire many independence movements in South America. Hint: there is one country that bears his name?
Who is Simon Bolivar?
Brazil has the largest population of people from which ethnicity currently living in the country?
What is Japanese?
Who is Juan Peron?
This waterfall system sees the largest amount of water pass over it in the course of a year.
What is Iguazu Falls?