1 - What is the highest peak in South America?
a) Mount Rushmore
b) Mount Aconcagua
c) Mont Blanc
d) Denali
2 - In South America, what is the Gran Chaco?
a) world’s largest plantation
b) lowland alluvial plain
c) high plateau
d) subrange of the Andes Mountains
3 - What name is given to the vast plain extending westward across central Argentina?
a) Great Plains
b) Altiplano
c) the Pampas
d) Highveld
4 - Which South American city is overlooked by a granite peak known as Sugar Loaf?
a) Buenos Aires
b) Lima
c) Rio de Janeiro
d) Santiago
5 - Which South American country does not border the Pacific Ocean?
a) Brazil
b) Chile
c) Peru
d) Colombia
6 - What is the southernmost point of South America?
a) Cape Cod
b) Cape Horn
c) Cape Comorin
d) Cape of Good Hope
7 - Where is the University of St. Francis Xavier, one of the oldest universities of South America?
a) Rio de Janeiro
b) São Paulo
c) Buenos Aires
d) Sucre
Answers:
1 - b) Mount Aconcagua
Mount Aconcagua, located in Argentina, is the highest peak in South America and commonly regarded as the highest summit in the Western Hemisphere. Its exact height is disputed.
2 - b) lowland alluvial plain
The Gran Chaco is a lowland alluvial plain in interior south-central South America. The name is of Quechua origin, meaning “hunting land.”
3 - c) the Pampas
The Pampas is the name of the vast plain extending westward across central Argentina from the Atlantic coast to the Andean foothills. The name comes from a Quechua Indian word meaning “flat surface.”
4 - c) Rio de Janeiro
The city of Rio de Janeiro lies on a strip of Brazil's Atlantic coast, on an inlet at the entrance to which is the landmark peak called Sugar Loaf.
5 - a) Brazil
Brazil faces the Atlantic Ocean along 4,600 miles (7,400 km) of coastline. It does not border the Pacific Ocean.
6 - b) Cape Horn
The University of St. Francis Xavier is in Sucre, Bolivia. Founded in 1624, it is one of the oldest universities in South America.
Cape Horn, the southernmost point of South America, is a steep, rocky headland on Hornos Island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago; it is in the Magallanes y La Antarctica Chilena region of southern Chile.
7 - d) Sucre
