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1
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Where is Machu Picchu located in?

A

Peru

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What is the largest country in South America?

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Brazil

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3
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What is the Amazon River Dolphin?

A

The Pink River Dolphin

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What is a gaucho?

A

Cowboy from Argentina

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5
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What is the tallest falls in the world?

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Angel falls

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What is the world’s longest mountain range?

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Andes mountain range

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What is the driest non polar place on earth and where?

A

Atacama Desert in Chile

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What is the name of the stretch of road that runs from North America to South America?

A

Pan American Highway

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9
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What is a pampas?

A

Grassland in Argentina

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10
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What is the language spoken in Brazil?

A

Portugese

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11
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Where is the Great Barrier Reef located?

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Coast of Australia

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What is the largest river by volume in the world?

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Amazon river

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13
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What are the 5 great lakes?

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Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Eerie, Superior

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14
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What are the continents of North and South America named after?

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Amerigo Vespucci

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15
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What is the lowest point in North America on land?

A

Death Valley, California

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What is the largest island in the world?

A

Greenalnd

17
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What is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area?

A

Lake Superior

18
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What state borders Niagara Falls?

A

New York

19
Q

How many islands are in the Caribbean Sea?

A

7,000

20
Q

Where is the 2nd largest coral reef and where is it located off the coast of?

A

Meso-American reef off the coast of Belize

21
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What two engineering projects created an around-the-world waterway?

A

Suez and Panama canal

22
Q

What does Polynesia mean?

A

Many islands

23
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What is the tallest mountain in North America?

A

Mt. Denali

24
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What is the name of the huge cave discovered in Vietnam in 1990 called?

A

Hang Son Doong

25
Q

How many islands makeup Indonesia?

A

18,000

26
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What explorer’s crew was the first to make it all the way around the world?

A

Ferdinand Magellan

27
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Who brought sugarcane to Brazil?

A

Portugese explorers

28
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What is the deepest part of the Caribbean?

A

Cayman trench

29
Q

What sea is made of seaweed and is in what ocean?

A

Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean

30
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What is the world’s smallest humming bird and where is it located?

A

Bee hummingbird in Cuba

31
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How far is Florida from Cuba?

A

90 miles

32
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What is an isthmus?

A

Narrow piece of land with sea on either side, forming a link between two larger areas of land

33
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What is a cape?

A

A high point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean (similar to a peninsula)

34
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What are the 4 layers of a rainforest?

A

Forest floor, understory, canopy; emergent

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