South American Geography

Presentation by: Emily Sturz & Shelby Hatcher

Countries and Their Capitals

•  Argentina-Buenos Aires

•  Brazil-Brasilia

•  Chile-Santiago

•  _____-Lima

•  Paraguay-Asuncion

•  Uruguay-Montevideo

•  Ecuador-Quito

•  Bolivia-La Paz

•  Colombia-______

•  Venezuela-Caracas

•  French Guyana-Cayenne

•  Suriname-Parramaribo

•  Guyana-Georgetown

Argentina

•  Climate: mostly temperate; arid in southeast; subantarctic in southwest

•  Landforms: It is home to ______in the South, and Andes along the Western Border.

•  Resources: tin, fertile plains, uranium, lead, manganese, zinc, copper, iron ore, petroleum.

•  It has a total area of 2,766,890 sq km

•  ______% of the land is arable.

Brazil

•  Climate: mostly tropical, but temperate in south

•  Landforms: Its home to the Amazon basin. Its mostly flat to rolling lowlands in ______; some plains, hills, mountains, and narrow coastal belt

•  Resources: petroleum, bauxite, gold, phosphates, iron ore, manganese, nickel, platinum, uranium, tin, hydropower, wood

•  It has a total area of 8,511,965 sq km

•  6.93% of the land is arable.

•  It is ______

Chile

•  Climate: temperate; cool and damp in south; desert in north; Mediterranean in central region

•  Landforms: low coastal mountains; fertile central valley; rugged Andes in east

•  Resources: nitrates, copper, wood, ______, molybdenum precious metals,, hydropower

•  It has a total area of ______sq km

•  2.62% of the land is arable.

Peru

•  Climate: varies from tropical in east to dry desert in west; temperate to frigid in ______.

•  Landforms: western coastal plain, high and rugged Andes in center, eastern lowland jungle of Amazon Basin

•  Resources: copper, silver, gold, petroleum, timber, fish, iron ore, _____, phosphate, potash, hydropower, natural gas

•  It has a total area of 1,285,220 sq km

•  2.88% of the land is ______.

Paraguay

•  Climate: subtropical to temperate; substantial rainfall in the eastern portions, becoming semiarid in the far west

•  Landforms: grassy plains and wooded hills east of Rio Paraguay; ______region west of Rio Paraguay mostly low, marshy plain near the river, and dry forest

•  Resources: ______, timber, iron ore, manganese, limestone

•  It has a total area of 406,750 sq km

•  ______% of the land is arable.

•  It is landlocked

Uruguay

•  Climate:warm temperate; ______temperatures almost unknown

•  ______: mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland

•  Resources: arable land, hydropower, minor minerals, fisheries

•  It has a total area of ______sq km

•  7.77% of the land is arable.

Ecuador

•  Climate: ______along coast, becoming cooler inland at higher elevations; tropical in Amazonian jungle lowlands

•  Landforms: coastal plain, _____-______central highlands, and flat to rolling eastern jungle

•  Resources: fish, petroleum, wood, hydropower

•  It has a total area of 283,560 sq km

•  ______% of the land is arable.

Bolivia

•  Climate:varies with altitude; humid and tropical to cold and semiarid

•  Landforms: ______Andes Mountains with a highland plateau, hills, lowland plains of the Amazon Basin

•  Resources: iron, hydropower, lead, tin, natural gas , silver, zinc, tungsten, antimony, gold, wood, petroleum

•  It has a total area of ______sq km

•  2.78% of the land is arable

•  It is a landlocked country.

Colombia

•  Climate: tropical along coast and eastern plains; cooler in highlands

•  Landforms: flat coastal lowlands, central highlands, high ______, eastern lowland plains

•  ______: petroleum, natural gas, coal, iron ore, nickel, gold, copper, emeralds, hydropower

•  It has a total area of 1,138,910 sq km

•  2.01% of the land is ______.

Venezuela

•  Climate: ______; hot, humid; more moderate in highlands

•  Landforms: Andes Mountains and Maracaibo Lowlands in northwest; central plains (llanos); ______Highlands in southeast

•  Resources: petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, gold, bauxite, other minerals, hydropower, diamonds

•  It has a total area of 912,050 sq km

•  ______% of the land is arable.