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South America

• Content Geography
• Grade Level 7
• Creator R. Schultz
• Curriculum OBJ/MAP Standard/IBD See Next slide

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South America

• Students will
• Discuss and practice the major elements of
  geographic study and analysis and their
  relationship to changes in society and
  environment.
• Study the relationships of the individual and
  groups to institutions and cultural traditions.
• Use the tools of social science inquiry
• Compare different regions of the world and
  understand major world issues

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South America

• Region Latin America

• What characteristics do the countries of Latin
  America share?

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South America

• Thirteen countries
• Brazil largest country
• Argentina 2nd largest
• Climate
• Peru Current flows north from Antarctica and
  chills air prevents rainfall and causes desert
  area to be cool along coast of Peru and Chile.
  Years can pass with no rain.
• Higher you are in tropical areas, colder it is
• Southern Chile has glaciers, fierce winds,
  storms, violent earthquakes

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South America

• Land
• Oil under Lake Maracaibo
• Central area has fertile areas where crops are
  grown
• Skiing popular in Andes
• Angel Falls largest waterfall in world (tallest)
• Iguacu Falls waterfall on border of Argentina
• Highest plateau in the world in Peru Altiplano

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• Misc.
• Built highway across Amazon from Atlantic to
  Pacific
• Ancient city of Machu Picchu is a mountain top
  city built by ancient Incas in the 1400s. This
  is in the Andes in Peru
• Many people live today as their ancestors did
  not unusual to see a pack train of llamas being
  driven across a valley in the Andes
• Lake Titicaca they still use reeds to build boats
  and houses and some live on small islands in the
  lake
• Rio de Janero one of the most beautiful cities
  no longer the capital because they wanted to
  encourage people to move inland. Most of the
  people in South America live on the coasts while
  the inland areas remain a wilderness. This makes
  for some of the worlds larges cities

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South America

• Peru has the largest Native American population
  in the Western Hemisphere
• Uruguay has mostly people of European descent.
• Language primarily Spanish with exception of
  Brazil (Portuguese) and Paraguay (Spanish and
  Guarani)
• Sao Paulo largest city on the continent and has
  worlds largest stadium it is the center of
  industry in South America
• Ecuador means equator in Spanish
• Venezuela named after Venice, Italy
• Brazil dominates the continent in land area
  southern area has moderate climate, which makes
  it popular
• Soccer is the favorite sport of most of these
  countries

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Fourth largest continent once joined to
Africa. Diverse landscape rainforest, plains,
deserts and Mountains.
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Angel Falls
Worlds largest rainforest
Mostly plains
Amazon Basin (size of Australia)
Most of the continent is below the equator So
their seasons are the opposite of ours
Hundreds of tributaries flow into River worlds
greatest volume of water (10X the Mississippi)
Lake Titicaca Highest navigable lake in the world
(2.5 miles above sea level.
- Longest mt. chain still growing 1 ft. every
300 yrs.
Andes Mts.
Atacama Desert one of driest deserts in the
world
Mt. Aconcagua tallest peak in W. Hem.
Pacific Coastlands Part ideal for growing
tropical fruits. Other parts desert.
Tierra del Fuego (land of fire cold, isolated
partly submerged mountains Of the Andes 600
miles to Antartica
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oil
Sugarcane, bananas
Ninty of world emeralds
Amazon area woods, Medicine, research
Terraced, rugged land, hard to grow crops
farming
Coffee Some gold
Corn and cotton
Cattle, Horses (cowhands Called Gauchos)
ranching