Section 1
Which country has the highest point in the Caribbean South America region, and is larger than California and Texas combined?
Colombia
Some of the Guiana Highlands' steep-sided plateaus are capped by erosion-resistant sandstone layers. These strange flat-topped structures are known as what?
Tepuís
Which area receives year-round rain, feeding the forest's massive trees and generating a canopy so dense that sunlight hardly penetrates to the jungle floor?
Amazon Basin
What is the name of the colonial city that served as a key naval and commercial port for the Spanish Empire?
Cartagena
Which nation has the most population in Caribbean South America?
Colombia
who hoped to find gold and pearls when when they came to Venezuela and forced the Indians to do all the hard work for them but then they began bringing enslaved Africans to take toe Indians' places But thankfully some slaves escaped eventually and settled in remote areas of the country. Finally partly because the colony was so poor, some people in Venezuela revolted against Spain and fought against Spanish rule.
Spanish
what is the amount of different Indian languages that is spoken in Venezuela.
25
what is the name of the group of countries that Venezuela is in that attempt to control world oil production and keep oil prices from calling too low.
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
what is it called when a group of workers stops working until their demands are met called.
Strike
what does Guyana mean in South American Indian?
Land of Waters
Which location within western Colombia has an elevation of 18,000 feet (5,490 meters)?
Andes
Venzuela's elevation drops between the highlands and the Andes. This area of plains is largely grassland with a few trees. These plains are prone to flooding due to their low elevation and lack of vegetation. What is this area known as?
Llanos
What are the principal crops grown in the Caribbean and South America?
rice, coffee, bananas, and sugarcane
People in Central and South America began fighting for independence from Spain in the late 18th century. What resulted after achieving independence?
The Republic of Gran Colombia
What is the name of the capital of Colombia, which is perched high in the eastern Andes?
Bogotá
what is the name of a plant that was used to die things a dark shade of blue.
Indigo
what is the name of a venezula's national dances which is a lively foot stonping couples dance.
Joropo
what parts of the region in the southeast is rich in other minerals other than oil, like iron ore for steel. Gold is also mined in this remote areas.
Guiana Highlands
Venezuelans opposed to Chavez call for __________, a direct vote by the public,to remove him from office.
Referendum
what is the name of Guyana's capital which holds a third of Guyana's population.
Georgetown
What is the name for a mountain system composed of generally parallel ranges?
Cordillera
What is the name of the region's longest river, which flows roughly 1,600 miles (2,575 kilometers)?
Orinoco River
What are the names of the valuable resources of the Caribbean South America?
oil, iron ore, and coal
Which nations were part of Gran Colombia?
Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela
What is the name of a traditional Chibcha ring-toss game?
Tejo
Who led the revolt against Spain and led the fight against Spanish rule and is now a hero in many south American countries because he led wars of independence throughout the region.
Simon Bolívar
what does Venezuela's government benefit for wealth and is also the kind of industry that most wealthy Venezuelans make money from.In the 1960's Venezuela started getting huge sums of money off of this product.
Oil
what is the name of Venezuela's capital and the economic and cultural center of the country but still has not escaped poverty. this capital is encircled by slums, and many Venezuelans living in the rural area's of the country are also poor.
Caracas
when did Chavez die to a serious illness from his January 2013 inauguration on his fourth term when he supported changing his nation's constitution to end presidential term limits.
March 5, 2013
the resources and economy of this country is similar to those of Guyana and its capital is home to nearly half of the countries people. For example it has a divers population and it includes South Asians, Africans, Chinese, Indonesians, and Creoles.
Suriname
Which country on the Caribbean coast is located in the midst of the South American region?
Venezuela
The Orinoco and its tributaries drain the Andean plains and highlands. What are the names of those tributaries?
The Cauca and the Magdalena
What other title did El Dorado's mythology go by?
Golden One
What resulted with the dissolution of the Republic of Gran Colombia in 1830?
New Granada
What do members of an irregular military unit go by?
Guerrillas
when did Venezuela officially become independent.
1830
what are Venezuelan cowboys called who herd cattle on the many ranches of the llanos region.
Llaneros
After years of suffering under military dictatorships, the people of Venezuela elected their first president in what year.
1959
what region has dense tropical rain forest that cover it, lies east of venezuela, and the countries of Guyan, Suriname, and French Guiana are together in this region?
Guianas
what is the name of Suriname's capital which holds nearly half of the country's people.
Paramaribo
Where is Venezuela's highest elevation located, which extends into Guyana and Suriname?
Guiana Highlands
What's the name of a landscape that thrives in southern Colombia's humid tropical climate?
Rain forests
The legend of El Dorado revolved around a gold-rich land. What culture in Colombia originated this myth?
Chibcha
Which nations were part of New Granada?
Colombia and Panama
The majority of guerrillas cultivate illegal crops. What is the name of the plant that produces the hazardous narcotic cocaine?
Coca plant
the Spanish, conquered the small tribes of south American Indians in where and also hoped to find gold a pearls in where?
Venezuela
the Crinoco River basin and what lake is both rich in oil?
Lake Maracaibo
in 2002 which one of Venezuela's president's started to distribute the country's oil income equally among all Venezuelans.
Hugo Chavez
which country has a third of the country's population in their capital and its population is divers. Also nearly all of this countries agricultural lands are located on the flat, fertile plains along the coast and in this country the most important agricultural products are rice and sugar.
Guyana
what country is a territory of France and sends representatives to the government in Paris and roughly 200,000 people live mostly in coastal areas.About two-thirds of the people of this country is African descent and other groups include Europeans, Asians, and South American Indians.Finally this country depends heavily on imports for its food and energy.
French Guiana