Section 1
What is the highest point of the Caribbean South and is larger than Texas and California combined?
Colombia
What is a flat top of a mountain made out of sandstone called?
Tepuís
Where does rain fall year round feeding trees water that make the canopy so dense that sunlight barely reaches the bottom?
Amazon Basin
What major colonial city was an important naval port?
Cartagena
economy relies on several valuable resources. Rich soil, steep slopes, and tall shade trees produce world-famous _________ coffee. Other major export crops include bananas, sugar cane, and cotton.
Colombia
What area has an elevation of 18,000 feet?
Andes
What is the area where the elevation from the highlands drop and raise from the Andes called?
Llanos
What are the major crops for Caribbean South America and are important staples for the agricultural economy?
rice, coffee, bananas, and sugarcane
After independence from Spain 4 countries came together to make what?
The Republic of Gran Colombia
What is the capital of Colombia, being high in the mountains?
Bogotá
What is a parallel mountain range called?
Cordillera
This river flows for 1,600 miles making its way through Venezuela to the Atlantic Ocean?
Orinoco River
What are the Caribbean South's more valuable mineral resources?
oil, iron ore, and coal
What countries were in the nation of Gran Colombia?
Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela
What is a ring-toss game created by the Chibcha called?
Tejo
What country lies on the Caribbean coast and is located in between other countries?
Venezuela
What is the Orinoco's Tributaries called?
The Cauca and the Magdalena
What is another name for the myth of El Dorado? ( This meant a land with plentiful amounts of gold)
Golden One
What was Gran Colombia known as after Venezuela and Ecuador left?
New Granada
What is the name of a makeshift army that make and traffic drugs and cocaine?
Guerrillas
Guiana Highlands
What type of landscape thrives in the humid-tropical southern Colombia?
Rain forests
What culture was quite rich and covered their kings in gold dust and they even created the El Dorado legend.
Chibcha
What countries were in the nation of New Granada?
Colombia and Panama
What is a plant used to make a dangerous drug, cocaine?
Coca plant