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40 Cards in this Set
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Chile ranks as the world's leading producer of...........
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copper
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Lake Titicaca lies in the highlands of what country?
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Peru
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Sheep anhd cattle out-number people by 10 to one in which country?
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Uruguay
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Colombia was named after.....
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Christopher Columbus
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The country that makes up almost half of South America is.......
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Brazil
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___________has the world's largest hydroelectric power generator at Itaipu Dam on the Parana River.
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Paraguay
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If you visited Peru, you would see ruins of the ancient Inca city of what?
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Machu Picchu
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The country with the highest capital city in the world is which country?
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Bolivia
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The South American country that is a world leader in Oil production is........
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Venezuela
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________ is Ecuador's capital and a protected world cultural heritage site.
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Quito
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The world's second-longest river is the..........
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Amazon
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Rainfall can reach as much as 120 inches a year in.....
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the Amazon Basin
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The first and largest European group to colonize Brazil were the...........
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Portuguese
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In the mid-1800's, new settlers streamed into Brazil's interior when world demand for ____________sky-rocketed
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rubber
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In 1835, Charles Darwin, the famous British scientist, studied the unusual plant and animal life in.........
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the Galapagos Islands
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Ecudor got its name from the Spanish word for.........
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equator
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The Great Escarpment drops sharply into the Atlantic Ocean from...........
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the Brazilian Highlands
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Today most of Guyana's population is made up of people from.....
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India
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Native Americans in the Andes of Peru were the first to grow...
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potatoes
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the southern tip of Argentina stretches almost to...
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Antarctica
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ranches
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estancias
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highest navigable lake in the world
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Lake Titicaca
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most important river in Venzuela
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Orinoco
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islands at the southern tip of South America
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Tierra del Fuego
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thick tropical rain forests in Brazil
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selvas
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highest capital city in the world
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La Paz
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Colombian Farmers
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campesinos
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vast treeless plains in central Argentina
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pampas
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capital city of the Inca
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Cuzco
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rivwer from which Paraguay makies hydroelectric power to export
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Parana
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large highland plateau
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altiplano
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Native American group and language of Paraguay
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Guarani
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hot grasslands found in Colombia and Venezuela
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llanos
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rope with knotted cords that the Inca used to keep records
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quipu
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highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere
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Aconcagua
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work on estancias
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gauchos
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one of the driest places on EArth
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Atacama desert
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group of moun tain ranges that run side by side
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cordillera
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military ruler
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caudillo
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southernmost point of South America
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Cape Horn
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