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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of these is NOT a major crop grown in the Andes Mountain region?
Bananas
Coffee
Silk
Potatoes
- 2. Multiple Choice
What Native American tribe once built a large empire in the Andes Mountains?
Apache
Incans
Cherokee
Seminole
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which of these is NOT true about the glaciers in the Andes Mountains?
They are gradually shrinking over time.
They lie above the snow line.
They lie below the tree line.
When they melt each summer, they supply the mountains steams with water.
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is meant by the term "indigenous people?"
People who pay the most in taxes.
People who are elected to a government office.
People who have recently settled in an area.
People who have lived in an area for a long time.
- 5. Multiple Choice
A method of cutting flat spots into a hillside so you can grow crops is called...
Mestizo
Terracing
Altitudinal zonation
Vertical trade
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which of these crops would be LEAST SUITED to growing high in the mountains?
Bananas
Quinoa
Potatoes
Wheat
- 7. Multiple Choice
What is a "mestizo?"
Type of tortilla made in South America.
Tool used for farming.
Trade route through the mountains.
Person of mixed European / Native American ancestry.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which of these would affect the temperature of an area THE LEAST?
Latitude - Distance from the equator.
Longtitude - Distance from the Prime Meridian.
Elevation - How high above sea level a place is located.
Currents -- Whether a place receives warm or cold air currents.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is a FALSE statement?
The air is thinner at higher elevations.
The higher you go, the more oxygen the air contains.
More solar heat is found at the base (bottom) of a mountain.
Gravity pulls oxygen toward the earth's surface.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT TRUE of the Andes Mountains?
Longest mountain chain in the world.
Run down the western coast of South America.
Highest mountain chain in the world.
Pass through seven different countries.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which of these would you MOST LIKELY find in the Tierra Caliente zone?
Permanent snow and ice.
Tropical rainforest.
Treeless tundra.
Major metropolitan cities.
- 12. Multiple Choice
Term that refers to the climate / vegetation changes as you go up in elevation...
Precipitation
Domestication
Beach vacation
Altitudinal zonation
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