Abeka 6th Grade History Test 14 – Flashcards

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The Fourth largest continent
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South America
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South America is located mostly in this zone
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The Torrid Zone
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South America's largest lake
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Lake Maracaibo
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The world's highest navigable lake
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Lake Titicaca
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One of the driest regions in the world
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The Atacama desert
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The largest South American River
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The Amazon
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The world's largest tropical rain forest is found here
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The Amazon River Basin
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The Strait of Magellan separates South America from this island
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Tierra del Fuego
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The major mountain range of South Amercia
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The Andes
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The capital of Uraguay
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Montevideo
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The official language of Guyana
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English
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Chile is the world's largest producer of this
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Copper
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This South American country produces a great volume of wheat
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Argentina
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The capital of Brazil
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Brasilia
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More Indians live in the country than any other country in the worl
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Peru
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The language of the Incas
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Quechua
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He became emperor of Brazil at age 15
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Pedro II
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The capital of Ecuador
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Quito
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This country has 2 capitals
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Bolivia
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This country is said to have the world's finest coffee
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Columbia
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This country is known for the production of Petroleum
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Venezuela
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One of the seven natural wonders in Brazil
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Guanabara Bay
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The Dutch Guiana became independent, it changed its name to this
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Suriname
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The fertile grasslands extending across Argentina
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Pampas
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The most famous early South American Indians
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Incas
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The oldest permanent European settlement in South America
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Cumana, Venezuela
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The largest city in South America
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Sao Paulo, Brazil
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The British missionary who dies during his attempt to bring the gospel to the Indians of the Tierra del Fuego
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Captain Allen Gardiner
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A missionary to the Quechuas and the Aucas of Equador
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Jim Elliot
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One of the first Protestant missionaries in South America
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James Thomson
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The most famous patriot in South America
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Simon Bolivar
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The first European to sail from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean
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Ferdinand Magellan
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The first man to realize that the Americas were a new world
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Amerigo Vespucci
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The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas
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Francisco Pizarro
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