South America Study Guide
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| Who declared Brazil independent from Portugal | Dom Pedro
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| Who liberated Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia | Jose de San Martin
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| What Spanish conquistador was responsible for defeating the Incas? | Francisco Pizarro
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| What Chilean dictator introduced the first free-market reforms in South America? | Augusto Pinochet
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| The Capital of Paraguay | Asuncion
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| Name for the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe | Drake Passage
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| An ocean inlet is called | estuary
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| The widest waterfall in the world is the | Iguacu Falls
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| The Capital of Argentina is | Buenos Aires
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| Believed to have been the last Inca Stronghold | Machu Picchu
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| Second largest lake in South America | Titicaca
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| Ridges and valleys east of the Andes | Yungas
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| The greatest hero of Latin America, who liberated many areas of South America | Simon Bolivar
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| The broad, grassy plains that cover over half of Colombia are the | Llanos
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| The largest lake in South America is | Lake Maracaibo
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| Coffea arabica is popular for its | aroma
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| Tepuis are | huge block-shaped mountains
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| The Andes Mountains are how long | 4,500 miles Long
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| Cotopaxi is | the highest active volcano in the world
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| What Indian civilization's name means "Children of the sun" | Incas
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| Giant tortoises gave their name to the? | Galapagos Islands
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| Quechua is spoken by | Indian descendants of Incas
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| Pizarro made his headquarters in | the City of Lima
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| An Inca stronghold known as the "city in the clouds" was | Machu Picchu
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| Chile has the world's only natural deposits of | sodium nitrate
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| Free-market reforms in Chile were introduced by | Augusto Pinochet
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| Ferdinand Magellan was the first to | circumnavigate the globe
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| Jose de San Martin was the great liberator of all the following except | Ecuador
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| What is the name of the steamy Amazonian rain forest that spreads over one-third of the South American continent | Selva
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| The most thoroughly European population in South America is in | Uruguay
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| Which man led Argentina into debt and economic ruin? | Juan Peron
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