Caribbean and South America Flashcards
What mountain range is located in the Caribbean and South America?
Andes Mountains
What natural disaster happens a lot in the Andes Mountains?
earthquakes
What are the highest mountain located in Car. & SA?
Highlands that stretch from Guyana to Suriome
Are there platues in Car. & SA?
Yes
What are the Llanos?
A region of plains (grassland and trees)
What is the longest river in Car. & SA?
Orinoco River
What are the two most important rivers in Car. & SA?
Cauca and Magdalena
What is the weather like in the Car. & SA?
there is warm weather a lot
What is the weather like in the Llanos plains?
tropical weather, so it is wet and dry so things can grow
What is the weather like in the rainforest?
Humid and parts of the Amazon Basin are where the rain falls a lot, watering the trees.
What type of natural resource is popular in the Car. &SA?
Agriculture
What are some major crops of the Car. & SA?
Rice, coffee, bananas, and sugar
What are some valuable resources of Car. & SA?
Oil, iron ore, and coal
What are the four cousins of Atlantic South America?
Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay
What is the world’s largest river system that extends from the Andes mountains in Peru to the Atlantic Ocean?
Amazon River
What flows into the Amazon River?
Hundreds of tributaries
Why does the Amazon carry more water than any other river in the world?
It has such a huge drainage system
What percent of the water that runs off the Earth’s surface flows down the Amazon?
20%
What is a partially enclosed body of water where freshwater mixes with salty seawater called?
Estuary
What river drains much of the central part of South America?
Parana River
All of the southern plains rise in the west to form the high…
Andes Mountains
What is a region of dried plains and plateaus?
Patagonia
What are the wide grassy plains called?
Pampas
What is the name of a low plain region that has a humid and tropical climate?
Gran Chaco
What is the high plains?
Mato Grosso Plateau
What is a region of rugged old eroded mountains called?
Brazilian Highlands
What is the name of a giant, flat flood plain?
Amazon Basin
What is the climate like in the south?
Cool
What is the climate like in the Highland area?
tropical and moist
What is the Pampas good for?
Farming
What kind of climate does Brazil have?
tropical, savannah climate with warm grasslands
What is the climate like in the North?
hot and dry
What is the clearing of trees called?
Deforestation
What is the region’s land also a resource for?
Commercial farming
What is soil that is fertile because it has lost nutrients needed by plants called?
Soil exhaustion
What do the dams provide on some of the region’s large rivers?
Hydroelectric power
