Test 3 Study Guide Flashcards
Amazon Basin
In the same area as northern Brazil
Amazon river
Second longest river in about 4000 miles long. The Paraguay river meets the Amazon river near the coast of Brazil in the north. The Amazon river splits into the Negro river and the Madeira River.
The original line of the Amazon river ends in…
Peru
Andes mountains chain
The Andes is about 4500 miles long and it is the worlds longest mountain range. It goes down the coast of Ecuador Peru Chile and into Argentina.
Andorra is in between…
Andorra is in between Spain and France
Andorra’s people speak..
Catalan
Andorra is the worlds only…
Co-principality
Andorra was ___ during World War II
Neutral
Armenia is a country in..
Asia
Armenia’s national symbol is the…
Turkey
Apennine Peninsula is taken up by the country of…
Italy
Brazil is the ___ country in south americas
biggest country
How many rivers does Brazil contain?
Five major rivers
Buenos Aires is who’s capital?
Argentina’s
Buenos Aires is on…
Argentina’s coast
Canopy means…
A continuous layer of leaves
Chile lies on the-continent of…
South America
Chile borders…
Argentina Bolivia and Peru
Dutch is spoken in…
Mainly only in the Netherlands
Ecaudor borders…
Columbia and Peru
Ecuador’s main languages are __ and it’s capital is ___
Spanish and Quechua
Quito
Equator passes through…
Ecuador Colombia and Brazil
Gabriel Garcia Moreno is a —- novelist
Columbian
Hinduism
A religion common in the West Indies and coastal areas of South America
Honduras borders the countries of
Guatemala El Salvador And Nicaragua
Capital of Honduras is
Tegucigalpa
Hungarian people come from—- and speak—-
Hungary and speak Hungarian
Iberian peninsula contains…
The countries of Portugal Spain in the Pyerenees mountains
Isthmus of Panama is the…
Narrow strip of land that forms the link in Central America between North American South America
Italian can be used to describe…
People from Italy in the language spoken by Italians
Liechtenstein is a…
Country who’s capital is Vaduz
Lake balaton is in…
Hungary
Lake como is in…
Italy
Lake Geneva is in…
Switzerland
Lake Maracaibo is in
Venezuela
Lake titicaca is in…
South America in Bolivia
Malta
Is in Europe
Malta’s people speak..
Maltese and English
Mediterranean is
The name of a sea or can referred to the countries on the coast by the Mediterranean sea
Mexican plateau is in
Mexico
Mexico has people called___ and common languages are___
Mexicans
Spanish and native American
Mississippi River
Leads into the Gulf of Mexico
Paraguay River leads to
The start of the Amazon river
Paraguay River crosses through he countries of…
Argentina Paraguay Bolivia and Brazil
Paraná river meets the
Uruguay and Paraguay rivers
Patagonia is in
Europe
Populated rim of South America is by the
Caribbean sea
Prime meridian passes through
The United Kingdom France and Spain in Europe
Scandinavian peninsula contains
Finland Sweden and Norway
Sierra madre occidental is a mountain range in
Mexico
Spain main language is
Spanish Catalan Galician basque
Tierra caliente is
The heartland that lies at elevations between C level in 2500 feet
Tierra fría
Is the Cold land where frost are common during winter months
Tierra templada
Is the temperature land that lies between 2500 feet in 6500 feet
Tropic of cancer
Passes through northern West Indies islands and Mexico
Tropic of Capricorn’s
Passes through chili Bolivia Paraguay and Brazil
Uruguay River passes through
Uruguay
Vatican City is where the ___ lives
Pope
The country in Europe with no capital is…
Vatican City
