| A | B |
|---|
| first European to sail from the Atlantic to Pacific | Ferdinand Magellan |
| became an emperor at age 15 | Pedro |
| explorer who realized the Americas were a New World | Amerigo Vespucci |
| famous patriot in S.America's struggle for independence | Simon Bolivar |
| Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas | Francisco Pizarro |
| world's largest tropical rain forest | Amazon River Basin |
| Protestant missionary to South America | James Thomson |
| "George Washington of South America" | Simon Bolivar |
| major mountain range of South America | Andes |
| fourth largest continent in the world | South America |
| one of the driest regions in the world | Atacama Desert |
| largest river in South America | Amazon River |
| natural wonder of the world | Guanabara Bay |
| the zone that S.America is located in | torrid |
