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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?
Brazil ✓
Uruguay ✓
Argentina ✓
Peru ✓
2. Which South American capital has the highest elevation of all capitals in the world?
Asuncion ✓
Bogota ✓
La Paz ✓
Caracas ✓
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?
Chile ✓
Peru ✓
Ecuador ✓
Venezuela ✓
5. Cotopaxi and Chimborazo are stratovolcanoes located in which country?
Peru ✓
Colombia ✓
Chile ✓
Ecuador ✓
6. Which country's flag has the sun symbol in the upper left corner?
Chile ✓
Argentina ✓
Paraguay ✓
Uruguay ✓
7. What is the name of tropical rain forest found in South America around the Amazon Basin?
Prairie ✓
Campos ✓
Llanos ✓
Selvas ✓
8. What are pampas?
Sandy and muddy deserts ✓
Deep swamps ✓
Tropical jungles ✓
Large treeless plains ✓
9. What is the southernmost point of South America called?
Cape Barrow ✓
Cape of Good Hope ✓
Cape of Fire ✓
Cape Horn ✓
10. What is the name of the peak situated in Rio de Janeiro?
Holy Mountain ✓
Diamond Head ✓
Hand of God ✓
Sugarloaf Mountain ✓
11. Angel Falls is the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall. Where is it located?
Chile ✓
Bolivia ✓
Brazil ✓
Venezuela ✓
12. Quito is the capital of which country?
Ecuador ✓
Equatorial Guinea ✓
Uruguay ✓
Equator ✓
13. What is the former name of Suriname?
British Guiana ✓
French Guiana ✓
Dutch Guiana ✓
Belgian Guiana ✓
14. With population over 12 million what is the largest city in South America?
Rio de Janiero ✓
Sao Paulo ✓
Bogota ✓
Lima ✓
15. What is the only country in the Americas where a majority of the population speaks one indigenous language: Guaraní?
Argentina ✓
Ecuador ✓
Chile ✓
Paraguay ✓
16. Which two countries are sharing Tierra del Fuego archipelago?
Chile and Peru ✓
Argentina and Uruguay ✓
Venezuela and Colombia ✓
Argentina and Chile ✓
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?
Sao Francisco ✓
Parana ✓
Orinoco ✓
Amazon ✓
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 Columbus ✓
Strait of Vespucci ✓
Strait of Magellan ✓
Strait of Drake ✓
20. The isolated and sparsely-populated Falkland Islands are the overseas territory of which country?
Argentina ✓
United Kingdom ✓
France ✓
Spain ✓
21. Iguazú Falls are waterfalls on the border of Argentina and what other country?
Paraguay ✓
Chile ✓
Bolivia ✓
Brazil ✓
22. The seat of government and executive capital of Bolivia is La Paz. What is country's constitutional capital?
Santa Cruz de la Sierra ✓
Valparaiso ✓
Sucre ✓
Cochabamba ✓
23. What is the highest mountain in the Americas?
Kosciuszko ✓
Denali ✓
Aconcagua ✓
Vinson ✓
24. Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is an island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean and special territory of which country?
Chile ✓
Argentina ✓
Ecuador ✓
Peru ✓
25. What is the driest nonpolar desert in the world located in South America?
La Guajira ✓
Atacama ✓
Patagonia ✓
Mojave ✓
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