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What major chain of mountains in South America is the world's longest at over 4,400 miles and has the highest mountains outside of Asia?
The Andes
The Rockies
The Sierra Madres
The Alps
The Himalayas
What is the major tropical rainforest in South America?
The Amazon Rainforest
The Tama Kinabalu Rainforest
The Valdivian Rainforest
The Hana Rainforest
El Yunque Rainforest
What river in South America is the world's 2nd longest and carries 20% of Earth's river water?
The Amazon River
The Orinoco River
El Rio de la Plata
The Parana River
The Paraguay River
What desert in South America is the world's driest hot desert?
The Atacama Desert
The McMurdo Dry Valleys
The Sonoran Desert
The Gobi Desert
The Sahara Desert
What sea borders South America to the north?
The Caribbean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea
The Gulf of Mexico
The Black Sea
The Dead Sea
What Ocean borders South America to the west?
The Pacific Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean
The Indian Ocean
The Southern Ocean
What Ocean borders South America to the east?
The Pacific Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean
The Indian Ocean
The Southern Ocean
What cool, dry, temperate plain in Southern Argentina is good for grazing sheep?
Patagonia
Pampas
Altiplano
Llanos
Guyana
What warm, rainy, subtropical temperate plain in eastern Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil is good for ranching cattle and farming crops?
Patagonia
Pampas
Altiplano
Llanos
Guyana
What high altitude plain is suitable for grazing llamas, alpacas, and vicunas?
Patagonia
Pampas
Altiplano
Llanos
Guyana
What major river flows through Venezuela?
The Orinoco
The Parana
The Amazon
El Rio da la Plata
What traditional ranchers, similar to American Cowboys, of the Pampas are national symbols of bravery and independence in Argentina and Uruguay?
Gauchos
Farmers
Ranchers
Cowboys
What major peak of the Andes, at 22,837 feet above sea level, is the highest peak in South America, the Andes, the Western Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere, and anywhere outside of Asia?
Aconcagua
Denali
Sagarmatha
Pikes Peak
What is the name for a table-top mountain or mesa found in the Guiana Highlands of South America, especially in Venezuela and western Guyana? This word means "house of the gods" in the native tongue of the Pemon, the indigenous people who inhabit the Gran Sabana.
Tepui
Mesa
Plateau
Orinoco
Which waterfall, the world's tallest from top at bottom at over 3,200 feet, cascades down the side of the Auyán Tepui in Venezuela?
Angel Falls
Victoria Falls
Niagara Falls
Iguazú Falls
Which waterfalls, on the Brazil-Argentina border, are the world's largest and generate a great deal of Hydro-Electric power?
Iguazú Falls
Angel Falls
Niagara Falls
Victoria Falls
What country has the world's largest deposits of copper?
Chile
Argentina
Paraguay
Bolivia
Peru
What country in South America has the world's largest oil reserves?
Venezuela
Colombia
Chile
Argentina
Brazil
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