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