South America Physical Geography

Mountains that stretch the west coast of South America

• Himalayas

• Andes

• Llanos

• Adirondacks

A mountain system made up of roughly parallel ranges

• Cordillera

• Andes

• Guyana

• Orinoco

Plateaus stretching from Venezuela to Suriname

• Highlands

• Guiana

• Guiana Highlands

• Carter's Highlands

Plains region between the highlands and the Andes

• Cordillera

• Orinoco

• Amazon

• Llanos

Longest River in Caribbean South America, flows through Venezuela to the Atlantic Ocean

• Amazon

• Cordillera

• Orinoco

• Rio de Janeiro

4,000 mile long river that flows eastward across northern Brazil

• Rio de la Plata

• Amazon

• Orinoco

• Pampas

An estuary that connect the Parana River and the Atlantic Ocean

• Rio de Janeiro

• Amazon

• Orinoco

• Rio de la Plata

Soil that has become infertile because it has lost nutrients needed by plants

• Deforestation

• Silt

• Soil Exhaustion

• Estuary

A partially enclosed body of water where freshwater mixes with salty seawater

• estuary

• tributary

• february

• visionary

Wide, grassy plains in central Argentina

• Pompeii

• Pampas

• Llanos

• Tierra del Fuego