South America Physical Features

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Across
  1. 2. The _________ Islands are owned by the UK and disputed by Argentina.
  2. 4. These very hot and dry scrubby grasslands are named like some types of sandals!
  3. 7. Cold windy land at the southern tip of the Continent.
  4. 12. This is the section of rough seas that ships used to cross to get from New York to San Francisco before the Panama Canal was built.
  5. 13. An archipelago owned by Ecuador.
  6. 17. The Amazon River starts in the Andes and flows into the ____________.
  7. 18. Patagonia is a place where they raise this typen of animal.
  8. 19. The longest unbroken mountain chain on land.
Down
  1. 1. The wet grasslands of Venezuela/Colombia are flat and full of snakes; they're called __________.
  2. 3. The Galapagos islands are an example of an _______________.
  3. 5. Bolivia and Paraguay are two ____________ countries.
  4. 6. These falls start at the top of the Guyana Highlands.
  5. 8. This desert is the driest place on Earth.
  6. 9. These Highlands are the bigger ones...
  7. 10. Guyana ________________ have flat and rounded tops, unlike mountains.
  8. 11. Largest wetland in the world
  9. 14. 20% of the fresh water that reaches the Earth's oceans travels through it...
  10. 15. A desert is a place that receives less than 10 _______ of precipitation per year.
  11. 16. These deel soil grasslands of Argentina and Uruguay are great for farming.