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Unit 3 South America Overview

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name of highest peak in South America?

a)

Guyana

b)

Cordillera de los Andes

c)

Aconcagua

d)

Chimborazo

2.

What is the name of the largest lake in South America?

a)

Paraná

b)

Amazonas

c)

Victoria

d)

Titicaca

3.

What is the name of the driest desert in the world that is located in Chile?

a)

Namib Desert

b)

Atacama Desert

c)

Sahara Desert

d)

Kalajari Desert

4.

The coastal plains of the north part of Brazil are extremely dry.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

5.

What is the official language of Brazil?

a)

English

b)

French

c)

Portuguese

d)

Spanish

6.

What is the official language of Argentina?

a)

English

b)

French

c)

Portuguese

d)

Spanish

7.

Which South American country is this?

a)

Brazil

b)

Colombia

c)

Argentina

d)

Mexico

8.

What is country 1?

a)

Colombia

b)

Venezuela

c)

Peru

d)

Suriname

9.

What is country 2?

a)

Colombia

b)

Venezuela

c)

Brazil

d)

Argentina

10.

What is country 6?

a)

Brazil

b)

Chile

c)

Argentina

d)

Bolivia

11.

What is country 7?

a)

Brazil

b)

Uruguay

c)

Paraguay

d)

Peru

12.

What is country 8?

a)

Brazil

b)

Argentina

c)

Chile

d)

Peru

13.

What is country 9?

a)

Paraguay

b)

Argentina

c)

Chile

d)

Peru

14.

What is country 12?

a)

Colombia

b)

Peru

c)

Bolivia

d)

Ecuador

15.

What is country 13?

a)

Colombia

b)

Guyana

c)

Bolivia

d)

Ecuador

16.

What is the name of the ocean highlighted blue?

a)

Southern Ocean

b)

Atlantic Ocean

c)

Pacific Ocean

d)

Arctic Ocean

17.

What is the name of the ocean highlighted blue?

a)

Southern Ocean

b)

Atlantic Ocean

c)

Pacific Ocean

d)

Arctic Ocean

18.

What is the following Latin America Physical Feature?

a)

Caribbean Sea

b)

Amazon River

c)

Atlantic Ocean

d)

Andes Mountains

19.

What is the following Latin America Physical Feature?

a)

Caribbean Sea

b)

Pampas

c)

Sierra Madre Mountains

d)

Andes Mountains

20.

Identify Feature Located In The Green Area.

a)

Ornico River

b)

Gulf Of California

c)

Patagonia

d)

Pampas

21.
What landform is circled?
a)
Pampas
b)
Llanos
c)
Gaucho
d)
Tierra Del Fuego
22.

Longest mountain range in the world, located in the west of South America:

a)

the Alps

b)

the Rocky Mountains

c)

Andes Mountains

d)

the Ural Mountains

23.

These are the parallel mountain ranges, that are separated by valleys and rivers:

a)

Cordilleras

b)

Pampas

c)

Llanos

24.

Most of South America speaks _______ and their religion is ________

a)

Spanish / Protestant

b)

Portuguese / Roman Catholic

c)

Spanish / Islam

d)

Spanish / Roman Catholic

25.

These were escaped slaves who formed their own communities in the jungles of South America:

a)

Crimsons

b)

Maroons

c)

Abolitionists

d)

Segregationists

26.

This is the grassy plain in Caribbean South America where a lot of farming is, located in Colombia and Venezuela:

a)

Pampas

b)

Cordilleras

c)

Llanos

d)

Gauchos

27.

This is name for the parts of the New World that speak a Latin-based language and have a Spanish, French or Portuguese culture:

a)

Southern Alliance

b)

Latin America

c)

United America

d)

South America

28.

What is the most important resource in Venezuela? They built their entire economy around it:

a)

Gold

b)

Oil

c)

Silver

d)

Lumber (wood)

29.

Voting for people to represent you in government and electing your leaders is known as...

a)

Representative Democracy

b)

Communist Dictatorship

c)

Absolute Monarchy

d)

Anarchist Syndicalism

30.

The mass cutting down of trees is known as...

HINT: they are cut down faster than replanted.

a)

Reforestation

b)

Deforestation

c)

Soil Erosion