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5. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved People Capitals Key Terms Countries Land & Vegetation $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Scores $100100 $200200 $300300 $400400 $500500

6. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Despite the pollution, about one- third of Chile’s people live in this capital city.

7. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is Santiago? Scores

8. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 It’s the capital of the South American country that has English as its official language.

9. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is Georgetown? Scores

10. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 In this capital of a landlocked country, you may hear the language known as Guarani spoken.

11. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is Asuncion? Scores

12. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 After stopping to see Machu Picchu and other Incan ruins, you might head to the coast to see this capital city.

13. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is Lima? Scores

14. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Located on the Caribbean Sea, this city serves as the capital and economic center for a country that produces lots of oil.

15. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What is Caracas? Scores

16. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 The large region of grasslands that stretches through Argentina and Uruguay is known as this.

17. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What are the pampas? Scores

18. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 It’s the name given to the periodic warming of the Pacific coast of the continent that can be harmful to marine life.

19. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is El Nino? Scores

20. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 People in South American nations have learned to do this to the economy, so as not to rely too heavily on one resource.

21. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is diversify? Scores

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23. $400 It’s the Spanish word for military officers who ruled their countries as dictators.

24. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What are caudillos? Scores

25. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Brasilia is located on a vast interior plain, also known as this.

26. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What is savanna? Scores

27. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 This country was once known as “Dutch Guiana.”

28. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is Suriname? Scores

29. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 This country on the Atlantic Ocean is nestled between Argentina and Brazil.

30. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is Uruguay? Scores

31. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Most of the people of this country live in the Altiplano, the plateau region that it shares with Peru.

32. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is Bolivia? Scores

33. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Dom Pedro, the son of a European king, declared this country independent in 1822.

34. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is Brazil? Scores

35. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Panama was once part of this country.

36. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What is Colombia? Scores

37. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved It’s the second-longest river in the world. $100

38. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is the Amazon? Scores

39. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 This mountainous region of Peru takes its name from the Spanish word for “mountain range.”

40. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is sierra? Scores

41. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 It’s a huge mass of slowly moving ice and snow that can be found in some of the highest parts of the Andes.

42. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is a glacier? Scores

43. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Almost 20% of the fresh water on the planet exists in the northern part of the continent, thanks in part to over 1,000 of these small streams and rivers that flow into a major river.

44. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What are tributaries? Scores

45. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 This natural resource is symbolized as the yellow part of Brazil’s flag.

46. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What is gold? Scores

47. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 He’s known as “The Liberator” because he helped the countries of northern South America to gain their independence from Spain.

48. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Scores Who is Simon Bolivar?

49. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Someone with mixed European and Native American ancestry is known as this.

50. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Scores What is a mestizo?

51. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Born in Argentina, he helped to defeat the Spanish army to secure the independence of both Chile and Peru.

52. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Scores Who is Jose de San Martin?

53. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved This word refers to both a group of indigenous people living in the Altiplano region of Peru and their native language. This word refers to both a group of indigenous people living in the Altiplano region of Peru and their native language. $400

54. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Scores What is/Who are the Quechua?

55. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 In 1973, armed forces led by this general took control of the Chilean government, which led to many years of human rights violations and brutality.

56. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Scores Who is Augusto Pinochet Ugarte?

57. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved This is the name that has been given to the route slave ships took from Africa to America. $100

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67. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 YOUR CATEGORY: Scores

68. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 NATIONAL FLAGS Scores

69. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 According to the pictures in your book, it’s the only South American country with vertical, as opposed to horizontal, stripes on its flag. Scores

70. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is Peru? Scores

71. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 NATIONAL FLAGS Scores

72. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 This color is common to more national flags of South American countries than any other. Scores

73. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is red? Scores

74. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 WATER Scores

75. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 It’s the South American country in which you’d find Lake Maracaibo and the Orinoco River. Scores

76. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is Venezuela? Scores

77. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 THE ECONOMY Scores

78. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 According to the chart in your book, these are the 2 South American countries that had over $50 billion of foreign debt as of 2005. Scores

79. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What are Brazil and Argentina? Scores