Culture Geography 10 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Who declared Brazil independent from Portugal | Dom Pedro |
Who liberated Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia | Jose de San Martin |
What Spanish conquistador was responsible for defeating the Incas? | Francisco Pizarro |
What Chilean dictator introduced the first free-market reforms in South America? | Augusto Pinochet |
The Capital of Paraguay | Asuncion |
Name for the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe | Drake Passage |
An ocean inlet is called | estuary |
The widest waterfall in the world is the | Iguacu Falls |
The Capital of Argentina is | Buenos Aires |
Believed to have been the last Inca Stronghold | Machu Picchu |
Second largest lake in South America | Titicaca |
Ridges and valleys east of the Andes | Yungas |
The greatest hero of Latin America, who liberated many areas of South America | Simon Bolivar |
The broad, grassy plains that cover over half of Colombia are the | Llanos |
The largest lake in South America is | Lake Maracaibo |
Coffea arabica is popular for its | aroma |
Tepuis are | huge block-shaped mountains |
The Andes Mountains are how long | 4,500 miles Long |
Cotopaxi is | the highest active volcano in the world |
What Indian civilization's name means "Children of the sun" | Incas |
Giant tortoises gave their name to the? | Galapagos Islands |
Quechua is spoken by | Indian descendants of Incas |
Pizarro made his headquarters in | the City of Lima |
An Inca stronghold known as the "city in the clouds" was | Machu Picchu |
Chile has the world's only natural deposits of | sodium nitrate |
Free-market reforms in Chile were introduced by | Augusto Pinochet |
Ferdinand Magellan was the first to | circumnavigate the globe |
Jose de San Martin was the great liberator of all the following except | Ecuador |
What is the name of the steamy Amazonian rain forest that spreads over one-third of the South American continent | Selva |
The most thoroughly European population in South America is in | Uruguay |
Which man led Argentina into debt and economic ruin? | Juan Peron |
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