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Geography of South America

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1. What is the only South American country where Portuguese is the official language?
Peru
Argentina
Uruguay
Brazil
2. Which South American capital has the highest elevation of all capitals in the world?
Bogota
Caracas
La Paz
Asuncion
3. Which of the following territories is not an independent country?
Suriname
Ecuador
French Guiana
Guyana
4. Galapagos Islands are administratively a province of which country?
Venezuela
Peru
Ecuador
Chile
5. Cotopaxi and Chimborazo are stratovolcanoes located in which country?
Colombia
Peru
Ecuador
Chile
6. Which country's flag has the sun symbol in the upper left corner?
Chile
Uruguay
Paraguay
Argentina
7. What is the name of tropical rain forest found in South America around the Amazon Basin?
Campos
Prairie
Selvas
Llanos
8. What are pampas?
Deep swamps
Sandy and muddy deserts
Tropical jungles
Large treeless plains
9. What is the southernmost point of South America called?
Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Fire
Cape Horn
Cape Barrow
10. What is the name of the peak situated in Rio de Janeiro?
Sugarloaf Mountain
Hand of God
Diamond Head
Holy Mountain
11. Angel Falls is the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall. Where is it located?
Brazil
Venezuela
Chile
Bolivia
12. Quito is the capital of which country?
Ecuador
Equatorial Guinea
Equator
Uruguay
13. What is the former name of Suriname?
Dutch Guiana
Belgian Guiana
French Guiana
British Guiana
14. With population over 12 million what is the largest city in South America?
Bogota
Lima
Sao Paulo
Rio de Janiero
15. What is the only country in the Americas where a majority of the population speaks one indigenous language: Guaraní?
Ecuador
Chile
Argentina
Paraguay
16. Which two countries are sharing Tierra del Fuego archipelago?
Venezuela and Colombia
Chile and Peru
Argentina and Chile
Argentina and Uruguay
17. What is the largest lake in South America?
Titicaca
Victoria
Athabasca
Tanganyika
18. With 76.3% percent of it in Venezuela and the remainder in Colombia, what is the fourth largest river in the world by discharge volume of water?
Parana
Amazon
Orinoco
Sao Francisco
19. What is the name of a navigable sea route separating mainland South America to the north and Tierra del Fuego to the south?
Strait of Magellan
Strait of Drake
Strait of Columbus
Strait of Vespucci
20. The isolated and sparsely-populated Falkland Islands are the overseas territory of which country?
Spain
France
Argentina
United Kingdom
21. Iguazú Falls are waterfalls on the border of Argentina and what other country?
Chile
Brazil
Bolivia
Paraguay
22. The seat of government and executive capital of Bolivia is La Paz. What is country's constitutional capital?
Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Cochabamba
Sucre
Valparaiso
23. What is the highest mountain in the Americas?
Aconcagua
Denali
Kosciuszko
Vinson
24. Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is an island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean and special territory of which country?
Argentina
Peru
Chile
Ecuador
25. What is the driest nonpolar desert in the world located in South America?
La Guajira
Mojave
Patagonia
Atacama
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