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South American Physical Geography

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What major chain of mountains in South America is the world's longest at over 4,400 miles and has the highest mountains outside of Asia?

a)

The Andes

b)

The Rockies

c)

The Sierra Madres

d)

The Alps

e)

The Himalayas

2.

What is the major tropical rainforest in South America?

a)

The Amazon Rainforest

b)

The Tama Kinabalu Rainforest

c)

The Valdivian Rainforest

d)

The Hana Rainforest

e)

El Yunque Rainforest

3.

What river in South America is the world's 2nd longest and carries 20% of Earth's river water?

a)

The Amazon River

b)

The Orinoco River

c)

El Rio de la Plata

d)

The Parana River

e)

The Paraguay River

4.

What desert in South America is the world's driest hot desert?

a)

The Atacama Desert

b)

The McMurdo Dry Valleys

c)

The Sonoran Desert

d)

The Gobi Desert

e)

The Sahara Desert

5.

What sea borders South America to the north?

a)

The Caribbean Sea

b)

The Mediterranean Sea

c)

The Gulf of Mexico

d)

The Black Sea

e)

The Dead Sea

6.

What Ocean borders South America to the west?

a)

The Pacific Ocean

b)

The Atlantic Ocean

c)

The Arctic Ocean

d)

The Indian Ocean

e)

The Southern Ocean

7.

What Ocean borders South America to the east?

a)

The Pacific Ocean

b)

The Atlantic Ocean

c)

The Arctic Ocean

d)

The Indian Ocean

e)

The Southern Ocean

8.

What cool, dry, temperate plain in Southern Argentina is good for grazing sheep?

a)

Patagonia

b)

Pampas

c)

Altiplano

d)

Llanos

e)

Guyana

9.

What warm, rainy, subtropical temperate plain in eastern Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil is good for ranching cattle and farming crops?

a)

Patagonia

b)

Pampas

c)

Altiplano

d)

Llanos

e)

Guyana

10.

What high altitude plain is suitable for grazing llamas, alpacas, and vicunas?

a)

Patagonia

b)

Pampas

c)

Altiplano

d)

Llanos

e)

Guyana

11.

What major river flows through Venezuela?

a)

The Orinoco

b)

The Parana

c)

The Amazon

d)

El Rio da la Plata

12.

What traditional ranchers, similar to American Cowboys, of the Pampas are national symbols of bravery and independence in Argentina and Uruguay?

a)

Gauchos

b)

Farmers

c)

Ranchers

d)

Cowboys

13.

What major peak of the Andes, at 22,837 feet above sea level, is the highest peak in South America, the Andes, the Western Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere, and anywhere outside of Asia?

a)

Aconcagua

b)

Denali

c)

Sagarmatha

d)

Pikes Peak

14.

What is the name for a table-top mountain or mesa found in the Guiana Highlands of South America, especially in Venezuela and western Guyana? This word means "house of the gods" in the native tongue of the Pemon, the indigenous people who inhabit the Gran Sabana.

a)

Tepui

b)

Mesa

c)

Plateau

d)

Orinoco

15.

Which waterfall, the world's tallest from top at bottom at over 3,200 feet, cascades down the side of the Auyán Tepui in Venezuela?

a)

Angel Falls

b)

Victoria Falls

c)

Niagara Falls

d)

Iguazú Falls

16.

Which waterfalls, on the Brazil-Argentina border, are the world's largest and generate a great deal of Hydro-Electric power?

a)

Iguazú Falls

b)

Angel Falls

c)

Niagara Falls

d)

Victoria Falls

17.

What country has the world's largest deposits of copper?

a)

Chile

b)

Argentina

c)

Paraguay

d)

Bolivia

e)

Peru

18.

What country in South America has the world's largest oil reserves?

a)

Venezuela

b)

Colombia

c)

Chile

d)

Argentina

e)

Brazil