Bell Questions: Third Quarter Flashcards
Which country was named after a great South American Patriot?
Bolivia
Name both of the South American countries that have no coastline
Paraguay and Bolivia
What is the longest river in South America?
Amazon River
What is the name given to the large, treeless plains south of the Amazon?
Pampas
At the mouth of which river is Montevideo?
Rio de la Plata
What is the official language of Brazil?
Portugese
What is the capital of Ecuador?
Quito
What strait separates Chile from Fierra Del Fuego?
Strait of Magellan
What country owns the Galápagos Islands?
Ecuador
Which country owns the Falkland Islands?
The United Kingdom
What is the capital of Columbia?
Bogotá
In which mountain range is Macchu Picchu?
Andes Mountains
Where is lake Maracaibo?
Venezuela
What is the sacred city of the Incas?
Cuzco
What is the original name of Easter Island?
Rapa Nui
What type of land is Panama?
Isthmus
What is the largest lake in all of Central America?
Lake Nicaragua
All of Central America lies in what is commonly known as what?
The Tropical Zone
Where is Aruba located?
Caribbean Sea
What is the largest city in the Caribbean?
Havana
What ancient civilization lived in the Yucatan peninsula?
Mayans (exact verbage not known)
What kind of music is Jamaica famous for?
Reggae
The Caribbean has long been dominated by what agricultural industry?
Sugar
Into what two groups are the Antilles separated?
Greater Antilles and Lesser Antilles
What large body of water borders Mexico to the east?
Gulf of Mexico
In which South American country is Dutch the official language?
Suriname
Who conquered Peru in 1532?
Francisco Pizarro
What Andean empire did King Pachacuti extend in the 1400s?
Inca Empire
What U.S. state does Tijuana share a border with?
California
What is the name given to the narrow inlets caused by glacial erosion that are found along the coast of Greenland?
Fjords
Formerly known as British Honduras what is the only Central American country where English is the official language?
Belize
What is the name of the highest point in North America?
Denali
What is the largest freshwater lake in North America?
Lake Superior
What is the largest island of the north American continental shelf?
Greenland
What is the longest river in North America?
Missouri River
What is the largest city in North America? (population)
Mexico City
What river separates the United States and Mexico?
Rio Grande
What is the largest Caribbean island?
Cuba
Who did the United States negotiate the Louisiana Purchase with?
France
What country did the United States buy Alaska from?
Russia
What was the bloodiest war in US history?
Civil War
What is the name of the southernmost point of South America?
Tierra del Fuego
What is the major religion in South America?
(Roman) Catholic
What ancient civilization built Machu Picchu?
Incan Empire
The driest place in the world is a desert in South America called what?
Atacama Desert
Who helped Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru achieve their independence from their colonial rulers?
Simon Bolivar
Which tribe was native to the Virgin Islands (gist)?
The Caribs
What Latin American country had the biggest slave population?
Brazil
What resource was discovered in 1695 in colonial Brazil?
Gold
What country built the Panama Canal?
The United States