South AmericaIntroduces the geography, topography, climate, flora, fauna, and population of the continent of South America. |
Contents
CHAPTER ONE 4 Where Is South America? | 4 |
CHAPTER TWO 8 How Did South America Come to | 8 |
CHAPTER THREE 12 What Makes South America Special? | 12 |
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Aconcagua altitude Amazon rain forest Amazon River ANACONDA SNAKE ANDEAN CONDOR Andean Region animals found Archeologists Argentina armadillo Atacama Desert ATLANTIC OCEAN birds Bolivia Brazil Brazil declared BRAZILIAN PLATEAU Buenos Aires capybara Caribbean Sea CARNIVAL Center of South claimed Colombia continent continent's Cotopaxi countries Drake Passage driest Earth Earth's crust Ecuador equator feet Francisco Pizarro French Guiana Galápagos Islands giant Glaciers grasslands Guiana Highlands huge Ice Maiden Inca empire Incan jaguar Kourou lakes lands in present-day landscape in Chile largest latitude Llamas Machu Picchu Major map of South measured in degrees miles million years ago Mountains mudslides PACIFIC OCEAN Pampas Pangaea Paraguay Patagonia Paulo Peru Peruvian pieces of Earth's plant and animal Portugal prime meridian rainfall Raintree Steck-Vaughn Rio de Janeiro sea level South America Spain Spanish spider monkey sq km STEAMING CRATER Uruguay Valdes Peninsula Venezuela VIRGINIA BEACH volcano Western Hemisphere World Heritage Sites Yanomami