Caribbean and South America

Question 1

What mountain range is located in the Caribbean and South America?

Answer 1

Andes Mountains

Question 2

What natural disaster happens a lot in the Andes Mountains?

Answer 2

earthquakes

Question 3

What are the highest mountain located in Car. & SA?

Answer 3

Highlands that stretch from Guyana to Suriome

Question 4

Are there platues in Car. & SA?

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

What are the Llanos?

Answer 5

A region of plains (grassland and trees)

Question 6

What is the longest river in Car. & SA?

Answer 6

Orinoco River

Question 7

What are the two most important rivers in Car. & SA?

Answer 7

Cauca and Magdalena

Question 8

What is the weather like in the Car. & SA?

Answer 8

there is warm weather a lot

Question 9

What is the weather like in the Llanos plains?

Answer 9

tropical weather, so it is wet and dry so things can grow

Question 10

What is the weather like in the rainforest?

Answer 10

Humid and parts of the Amazon Basin are where the rain falls a lot, watering the trees.

Question 11

What type of natural resource is popular in the Car. &SA?

Answer 11

Agriculture

Question 12

What are some major crops of the Car. & SA?

Answer 12

Rice, coffee, bananas, and sugar

Question 13

What are some valuable resources of Car. & SA?

Answer 13

Oil, iron ore, and coal

Question 14

What are the four cousins of Atlantic South America?

Answer 14

Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay

Question 15

What is the world’s largest river system that extends from the Andes mountains in Peru to the Atlantic Ocean?

Answer 15

Amazon River

Question 16

What flows into the Amazon River?

Answer 16

Hundreds of tributaries

Question 17

Why does the Amazon carry more water than any other river in the world?

Answer 17

It has such a huge drainage system

Question 18

What percent of the water that runs off the Earth’s surface flows down the Amazon?

Answer 18

20%

Question 19

What is a partially enclosed body of water where freshwater mixes with salty seawater called?

Answer 19

Estuary

Question 20

What river drains much of the central part of South America?

Answer 20

Parana River

Question 21

All of the southern plains rise in the west to form the high…

Answer 21

Andes Mountains

Question 22

What is a region of dried plains and plateaus?

Answer 22

Patagonia

Question 23

What are the wide grassy plains called?

Answer 23

Pampas

Question 24

What is the name of a low plain region that has a humid and tropical climate?

Answer 24

Gran Chaco

Question 25

What is the high plains?

Answer 25

Mato Grosso Plateau

Question 26

What is a region of rugged old eroded mountains called?

Answer 26

Brazilian Highlands

Question 27

What is the name of a giant, flat flood plain?

Answer 27

Amazon Basin

Question 28

What is the climate like in the south?

Answer 28

Cool

Question 29

What is the climate like in the Highland area?

Answer 29

tropical and moist

Question 30

What is the Pampas good for?

Answer 30

Farming

Question 31

What kind of climate does Brazil have?

Answer 31

tropical, savannah climate with warm grasslands

Question 32

What is the climate like in the North?

Answer 32

hot and dry

Question 33

What is the clearing of trees called?

Answer 33

Deforestation

Question 34

What is the region’s land also a resource for?

Answer 34

Commercial farming

Question 35

What is soil that is fertile because it has lost nutrients needed by plants called?

Answer 35

Soil exhaustion

Question 36

What do the dams provide on some of the region’s large rivers?

Answer 36

Hydroelectric power