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South America Vocabulary

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A mountain system that is made up of roughly parallel ranges

a)

cordillera

b)

estuary

c)

favela

d)

strait

2.

This is the physical feature that covers most of the Pacific coast of South America.

a)

Andes Mountains

b)

Llanos

c)

Pampas

d)

Patagonia

3.

These are both grassland regions in South America

a)

Llanos and Pampas

b)

Pampas and Patagonia

c)

Patagonia and Llanos

d)

Amazon and Llanos

4.

The Rio de la Plata is an example of one of these partially enclosed areas where fresh and salt water combine

a)

estuary

b)

strait

c)

altiplano

d)

llanero

5.

This is the largest river system in the world and is home to the world's largest rain forest

a)

Amazon River

b)

Orinoco River

c)

Parana River

d)

Nile River

6.

This removal of trees in the rain forest is problematic because we rely on it for food, wood and plants for medicine...

a)

soil exhaustion

b)

deforestation

c)

favelas

d)

Manaus

7.

Planting the same crops year after year can cause this problem...

a)

soil exhaustion

b)

deforestation

c)

Mercosur

d)

favelas

8.

This warm ocean current causes changes in weather patterns throughout North and South America...

a)

El Nino

b)

El Chapo

c)

llanero

d)

gaucho

9.

This is one of the driest places on earth, receiving rain only about 5 times per century...

a)

Atacama Desert

b)

Patagonia

c)

Pampas

d)

Llanos

10.

There is one of these at the southern tip of Chile that connects the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean...

a)

strait

b)

estuary

c)

isthmus

d)

altiplano

11.

Sao Paulo is an example of one of these large urban areas...

a)

megacity

b)

favela

c)

suburb

d)

estuary

12.

Places like Rio de Janeiro will often have these large slum areas outside of the cities...

a)

favelas

b)

gauchos

c)

llaneros

d)

altiplanos

13.

These people are both examples of cowboys who work on either the Llanos or the Pampas...

a)

llaneros and gauchos

b)

gauchos and rangers

c)

rangers llaneros

d)

estuaries and guerillas

14.

These people are members of an irregular military, like the ones who have forced farmers off their land in Colombia...

a)

guerrillas

b)

gauchos

c)

llaneros

d)

coup

15.

This is an oil-rich body of water in Venezuela...

a)

Lake Maracaibo

b)

Amazon River

c)

Orinoco River

d)

Rio de la Plata

16.

Workers in Venezuela have been known to stop working in an effort to get their demands met which is called a...

a)

strike

b)

coup

c)

rebellion

d)

civil war

17.

After the Spanish colonized the countries of Pacific South America they would leave these Spanish kings behind to rule over the people...

a)

viceroy

b)

llanero

c)

gaucho

d)

conquistador

18.

Chile's leader was overthrown in one of these in the 1970's with the help of the US government...

a)

coup

b)

civil war

c)

viceroy

d)

strike

19.

Countries like Paraguay with no direct access to the water are considered...

a)

landlocked

b)

viceroy

c)

creole

d)

cordillera

20.

People who do odd jobs such as walking dogs, babysitting and mowing lawns are considered part of the ...

a)

informal economy

b)

formal economy

c)

Mercosur

d)

altiplano