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WorksheetsWorld Language Fair Spanish Geography
Total questions: 74
Worksheet time: 37mins
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?
The Andes
The Rockies
The Sierra Madres
The Alps
The Himalayas
What is the major tropical rainforest in South America?
The Amazon Rainforest
The Tama Kinabalu Rainforest
The Valdivian Rainforest
The Hana Rainforest
El Yunque Rainforest
What river in South America is the world's 2nd longest and carries 20% of Earth's river water?
The Amazon River
The Orinoco River
El Rio de la Plata
The Parana River
The Paraguay River
What desert in South America is the world's driest hot desert?
The Atacama Desert
The McMurdo Dry Valleys
The Sonoran Desert
The Gobi Desert
The Sahara Desert
What sea borders South America to the north?
The Caribbean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea
The Gulf of Mexico
The Black Sea
The Dead Sea
What Ocean borders South America to the west?
The Pacific Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean
The Indian Ocean
The Southern Ocean
What Ocean borders South America to the east?
The Pacific Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean
The Indian Ocean
The Southern Ocean
What cool, dry, temperate plain in Southern Argentina is good for grazing sheep?
Patagonia
Pampas
Altiplano
Llanos
Guyana
What warm, rainy, subtropical temperate plain in eastern Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil is good for ranching cattle and farming crops?
Patagonia
Pampas
Altiplano
Llanos
Guyana
What high altitude plain is suitable for grazing llamas, alpacas, and vicunas?
Patagonia
Pampas
Altiplano
Llanos
Guyana
What major river flows through Venezuela?
The Orinoco
The Parana
The Amazon
El Rio da la Plata
What traditional ranchers, similar to American Cowboys, of the Pampas are national symbols of bravery and independence in Argentina and Uruguay?
Gauchos
Farmers
Ranchers
Cowboys
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?
Aconcagua
Denali
Sagarmatha
Pikes Peak
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.
Tepui
Mesa
Plateau
Orinoco
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?
Angel Falls
Victoria Falls
Niagara Falls
Iguazú Falls
Which waterfalls, on the Brazil-Argentina border, are the world's largest and generate a great deal of Hydro-Electric power?
Iguazú Falls
Angel Falls
Niagara Falls
Victoria Falls
What country has the world's largest deposits of copper?
Chile
Argentina
Paraguay
Bolivia
Peru
What country in South America has the world's largest oil reserves?
Venezuela
Colombia
Chile
Argentina
Brazil
Rivers in the north of Spain are longer that the ones in the rest.
True
False
Which are the rivers that flow into the Atlantic Ocean?
Tajo
Ebro
Júcar
Miño
Guadalquivir.
The longest river in the Iberian peninsula is _____________
Guadiana
Tajo
Ebro
Duero
Click on the rivers that belong to the Cantabrian watershed.
Nalón
Turia
Nervión
Miño
Bidasoa
Click on the rivers that flow into the Mediterranean Sea.
Tajo
Ebro
Turia
Guadiana
Tick the odd one out.
Nalón
MIño
Guadalquivir
Cape is a península that protudes
into the land
into a river
into the body of water
The main capes on the Atlantic coast are:
cabo Fisterra
cabo de a Nao
cabo de Gata
cabo de Trafalgar
A gulf is a sea cutting into the land
Right
Wrong
A bay is a small _______
ria
cape
gulf
archipielago
An archipielago is ________
a group of cliffs
a group of capes
one island
a group of islands
Spain is one of the most mountainous countries in Europe.
True
False
The Meseta Central is surrounded by:
Montes de León
Montes de Toledo
Sistema Ibérico
Sierra Morena
The Pyrenees.
The _________ form a natural barrier between France and Spain.
Sistemas Béticos
Pyrenees
Macizo Galaico
The highest peak in the iberian Peninsula is ___________
Teide
Mulhacén
Peñalara
Pico Aneto
The highest peak in Spain is _________
Mulhacén
Teide
Aneto
Veleta
What is the capital of Honduras?
Roatan
Tegucigalpa
Honduras City
Managua
What is the capital of Costa Rica?
Costa Rica City
San Juan
San José
Tegucigalpa
What borders Central America to its South?
Puerto Rico
California
Mexico
South America
What is the capital of El Salvador?
El Salvador City
Tegucigalpa
Quito
San Salvador
Capital of Brazil
Brasilia
Quito
Bogota
Lima
Capital of Ecuador
Lima
Buenos Aires
Quito
Caracas
Capital of Colombia
Bogota
Quito
Montevideo
Lima
Capital of Bolivia
Georgetown
Cayenne
Caracas
La Paz
Capital of Chile
La Paz
Buenos Aires
Santiago
Georgetown
Capital of Argentina
Buenos Aires
Asuncion
Caracas
Quito
Capital of Venezuela
Caracas
Buenos Aires
Cayenne
Lima
