South America Review Race
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This is a race to find all the answers to the South America Unit Test. Once you have found all the answers, you will hold the secret to scoring an A on your test. You will work with a partner to answer each set of questions. When you are done with that set of questions, you will race to your teacher to get a signature. The first one to finish will earn a special prize. HINT! Be sure to follow the directions and use the maps, pictures, and charts to help you find the write answers.
Level 1: Geography Skillzzzzzzzzzz...
Questions 1-4
Directions: Use the map below to help you label the map and complete 1-4 on your worksheet. Be sure to make your map neat and spell everything correctly, or you won't pass to the next level.
- Draw a compass on the map using north, south, east and west
- Label the equator and prime meridian
- Label all 7 continents: North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, Antarctica
- Label all 5 oceans: Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean
STOP!!! Go get your teacher's signature to move on...
Level 2: Advanced Geography Skillzzzzz...
Questions 5-9
Directions: Use the maps and the answer bank to help you if you get stuck.
Level 2 answer bank:
western, South America, Atlantic Ocean, Asia, South America, North America, Africa
5. The equator runs through which three continents?
____________________, ______________________, ____________________
6. If you were at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude, where would you be?
__________________________________
7. Put your finger on 20° S and your other finger on 80°W, follow the lines until they intersect, which continent are you on?
__________________________________
8. If I am at 40ºN and 100ºW, which continent am I on? _________________________________
9. What hemisphere is all of South America in? _______________________________
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Level 3: Location and People
Questions 10-16
Directions: Use the maps, photo, and answer bank to help you answer the questions 10-16.
Answer Bank:
equator Bolivia transportation
South America trade the coast
oil the opposite water
Paraguay travel isolation
10. In South America, _________________________ & ______________________ are two countries that are landlocked (surrounded on all sides by land, not on the coast).
11. Most the people in South America live along ____________________________________.
12. Many endemic species have survived on the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador), because of its __________________ from ___________________________.
13. In the southern portion of South America the seasons are ______________________ from North America.
14. Brazil’s hot and humid climate of is due to it being close to the _________________________ & _______________________________.
15. The Amazon river benefits Brazil economically, because the river is a major ______________________________ route for __________________ and __________________.
16. Venezuela's number one export (a product sold to other countries is) ___________________.
STOP!!! Go get your teacher's signature to move on...
Remember these are the answers to the test tomorrow!
Level 4: Reading Maps & Charts
Questions 17-22
Directions: Use the maps and charts to answer the questions. Make sure you are using the correct map/chart for the question; they are in order of the questions. Use the answer bank if you get stuck
Level 4 answer bank:
higher, cattle ranching, equator, higher,
South America, increased, biodiversity
17. Which political geographic feature are most coffee growing countries near? _______________.
18. Which continent in the world produces the most coffee? ______________________________.
19. How would a country’s literacy rate (ability to read/write) affect its GDP (total money in a country)? GDP would become ________________, when literacy rates are ___________________
20 According to the pie chart, what was the biggest cause of deforestation between 2000 - 2005? __________________________________
21.When the Amazon Rainforest is lost there is also loss of __________________________________. Hint: This is one of our vocabulary words that means a variety of plant and animal species in a region.
22. While deforestation in Brazil has decreased over the last decade, deforestation in Peru has _______________.
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Hurry you can still win!
Level 5: History Buffs, Is it true or false?
Questions 23-27
Directions: Decide if the statement is True or False. If it is false, you must correct the statement to make it true. Use the photos to help justify your answers. Hint: 3 answers are False and 2 are true, use the answer bank if you get stuck.
Level 5 answer bank:
Europeans competing
Christian missionaries
native people died from diseases, war, and slave labor
23. _______ Because of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the Americas, the native people welcomed colonialism.
24. _______ Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the Americas led to Asian nations competing with each other to colonize the world.
25. _______ Firearms gave the Spanish conquistadors a technological advantage against the indigenous people.
26. _______ The Spanish language and Christian religion were introduced of Central and South America by Spanish colonization
27. _______ The mission architecture represented in the photo above were built by Muslim missionaries.
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You're almost done!!!
Level 6: Government - Who gets it?
Questions 28-30
Directions: Use the chart and the answer bank to help you answer the questions about governments in South America.
Level 6 answer bank:
the people
many
elected by popular vote
28. How is the president chosen in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile? _______________________________________________
29. When the citizens vote for their representatives (president, congress, senators), who has the power? _________________________________
30. Based on the information in the chart below, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile are examples of governments that are ruled by (choose one: few, many, one, all) _____________________