HS World Geography Chapter 13

2. Incan capital city.
4. The national capital of Venezuela.
11. A plateau in the Andes of Ecuador.
13. This is also known as the “River of Silver.”
15. The world’s highest navigable lake that straddles the border between Bolivia and Peru.
17. A mineral used in making aluminum.
18. This country’s name means “end of the land.”
19. The language other than Spanish that is spoken by most Paraguayan mestizos.
20. The country where Dutch is spoken because it used to be a colony of the Netherlands.
21. The national park where the highest waterfall in the world can be found.
24. The one finite resource that gives Venezuela most of its wealth.
25. The terms that describe trading up or down among villages at different elevations.
29. This country is one of the world’s largest bauxite exporters.
30. The first Indian to be elected President of Bolivia in 2005.
32. A time period during the 1970’s in Argentina when people were kidnapped by the military and never seen again.
34. This country takes its name from the Equator which cuts across the country.
35. A person of mixed African and European Ancestry.
36. A region of rolling foothills.
38. Terms that describe “hunting land,” or the interior lowland region of savanna and dense scrub in parts of Paraguay, Argentina, and Bolivia.
39. Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana together are common known as this.
41. Official language of French Guiana.

1. Language of the Incas.
3. A grassy plain.
5. A plateau region located in the Andes of Bolivia and Peru.
6. Other terms used to describe “temperate country.”
7. A grasslands region in Argentina and Uruguay.
8. A related set of separate mountain ranges.
9. Capital city of Chile.
10. This country takes its name from an Indian word meaning “river of the painted bird.”
12. The boundary in high elevations above which continuous forest vegetation cannot grow.
14. The country where Coffee was originally grown in 1000 A.D.
16. In Latin America, a tenant farmer or farm worker.
22. The driest and one of the most lifeless places on the earth that occupies the coastal plain in Chile.
23. The world’s highest waterfall.
26. The wide mouth of a river, where freshwater river currents meet salt water.
27. Official language of Guyana.
28. The national capital of Colombia.
31. Small shacks where almost 1/3 of the people live.
33. The South American country named after Christopher Columbus and the second most populous country in South America.
37. The name of the longest unbroken mountain chain in the world.
38. A cowboy who herded cattle in the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay.
40. A forested region in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.