South America - Physical Overview Flashcards
What two things run across South America?
The Tropic of Capricorn and the Equator.
What is a Hollow Country?
An area where a significant portion of the population lives on the coast and edges.
What is the Ring of Fire?
The Ring of Fire is a very large band of tectonically active area.
What is the Mata Grosa(?)?
A very large wetlands area in Southern America. It is the size of Texas and is similar to the American Everglades present in Texas.
How dry is it in Southern Southern America?
It is so dry that some substances like Phosphates just sit there because there isn’t enough water to react to them.
What is the Source of the Amazon River?
The Source of the Amazon River is the Andes Mountains.
What is Ore Noco(?)?
A river that flows through the country of Venezuela into the Caribbean Sea.
In northern Chile the Atacam is ___________.
A very dry desert.
Flowing across the grasslands of the Pampas is the ________.
Rio Plata.
