The main languages spoken in South America are Portuguese closely followed by Spanish
South America is connected to North America by a narrow strip of land called Isthmus of Panama
The largest South American country in both size and population is Brazil. The largest city is Sao Paulo, Brazil, which is also one of the ten largest cities in the world.
More than 30% of South America is covered by rainforests; the largest rainforest is the Amazon forest which is mainly enclosed within Brazil.
The Atacama Desert in Chile is
considered to be one of the driest places on Earth.
The longest river in South America is the Amazon River. Measuring a distance of 4,001 miles. it is considered to be the second longest river in the world after the Nile Africa.
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1) "Brazil" means "red like an ember."
ReplyDelete2) For more than 150 years, Brazil has been the world's largest exporter of coffee.
3) It was the first country in South America to accept women into it's armed forces.
1) Angel Falls was named after Jimmy Angel, a pilot from Missouri, who flew to the air circus Lindberg.
ReplyDelete2) During rainy seasons Angel Falls split into two water falls.
3) It is not an easy task to get to Angel Falls.
1: the Atacama Desert is home tot he worlds largest supply of sodium nitrate.
ReplyDelete2: The soil of the desert is like the soil of Mars.
3: Snow is still present even when the temperature is 104 Fahrenheit due to the altitude off the mountains.
1) Cattle ranching accounts for roughly 70 percent of deforestation in the Amazon.
ReplyDelete2) The Amazon is thought to have 2.5 million species of insects.
3) The Amazon is estimated to have 16,000 tree species and 390 billion individual trees
1. Most of South America is in the southern hemisphere below the Equator.
ReplyDelete2. The Amazon river runs through most of the northern parts of South America.
3. The Amazon flows 4,000 miles from Peru to Brazil.
1. The Amazon Rainforest is home to 205 species of birds.
ReplyDelete2. There are approximantly 3,000 kinds of fruit that are edible that grow in the rainforest.
3. The rainforest runs through nine countries. Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guinana.
1. During the wet season the amazon river can get up to 120 miles in width!
ReplyDelete2. 20% of the earth's freshwater that is dumped into the oceans is by the amazon river.
3. Approximately 1/5 of all river flow is accounted for by the amazon basin
of all river flow in the world*
ReplyDelete1) The Atacama desert is the driest desert in the world.
ReplyDelete2) The Atacama desert is a place that is used for filming movies on mars.
3) There is one place in the Atacama desert where it hasn't rained in over 1,400 years!