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
What is the most populous country in the Caribbean South?
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
In the late 1700's when Central and South America fought for independence from Spain they finally achieved making what?
The Republic of Gran Colombia
What is Columbia's capital near the eastern Andes?
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 are the countries of Gran Colombia?
Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela
What is a Chibcha Ring-toss game named?
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
When the Republic of Gran Colombia was dissolved in 1830 what did Panama and Colombia make together?
New Granada
What is an unusual militia group who has forced farmers off their land?
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 New Granada?
Colombia and Panama
What major plant is used to make Cocaine something very addictive and is destroying the country's economy?
Coca plant