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What are two rivers in South America?

• Amazon and Parana

• Amazon and Rio Grande

• Mississippi and Rio Grande

• Parana and Nile

Which language to most people overall speak in South America?

• English

• Portugues

• Dutch

• Spanish

What is the biggest mountain range in South America called?

• The Andes Mountains

• The Rocky Mountains

• The Blue Mountains

• The Pampas Mountains

What is the region of land in South America called pampas?

• The mountains running down South America

• grasslands in northwestern South America

• The longest river in South America

• grasslands in southern South America, used for cattle

What does subsistence farming mean?

• growing crops in order to sell to others

• only farming enough food for the family

• farming a large amount of one type of crop

• farming in harsh conditions

True or False: It rains more in lower elevation than in higher elevation lands.

• True

• False

What word describes the variety of species in an ecosystem?

• Tributary

• Habitat

• Biodiversity

• The Amazon Rainforest

True or False: The Amazon River starts in the Andes Mountains in Peru and from there, flows into the ocean

• True

• False

What was the prominent South American empire during the 1400s and beginning of the 1500s?

• The Aztec Empire

• The Spanish

• The Cherokee

• The Inca

What region in South America was the Incan Empire?

• The Amazon Basin

• The Pampas

• The Andes Mountains

• Easter Island