| A | B |
|---|
| llanos | savanna grasslands in Colombia and Venezuela |
| isthmus | land bridge |
| selva | tropical rainforests of Brazil |
| pampas | grassy plains of Brazil & Argentina |
| chaco | scrub-forested plains of northern Argentina |
| altiplano | high-elevated basin or plateau in the Andes Mts. |
| escarpment | cliff marking edge of plateau on southeast coast of Brazil |
| estuary | widening river mouth like the Rio de la Plata |
| archipelago | elongated chain of islands like the Greater and LesserAntilles |
| Tenochtitlan | Ancient Aztec capital - site of Mexico City |
| Sao Paulo | Largest city in South America - in Brazil |
| Medellin | Colombia |
| Rio de Janiero | Argentina |
| Orinoco River | Starts in Guiana Highlands and drains llanos of Venezuela & Colombia |
| Atacama Desert | Chile |
| Cape Horn | An island - not a true cape |
| Tierra del Fuego | Argentina's Land of Fire |
| Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | United Kingdom (Argentina) |
| Lake Titicaca | World's highest navigable lake- straddles border of Peru and Bolivia |
| Nazca Lines | Giant drawings on Peru's desert floor |
| Easter Island | Chile's possession but part of Oceania, not Latin America |
| Galapagos Islands | Owned by Ecuador and made famous by Charles Darwin |
| El Nino | Seasonal ocean current that flows south along the Pacific Coast of South America |
| Lake Maracaibo | Lake in Venezuela which sits over one of richest oil fields in world |
| Angel Falls | World's highest waterfalls - in Venezuela |
| Machu Picchu | Ancient Incan city in Peruvian Andes Mts. |
| Amazon River | River with world's largest flow of water |
| Mt. Aconcagua | Highest peak in the Americas - in Argentina |
| Andes Mts. | Major chain in South America and longest and second-highest mountain chain in the world |
| patagonia | Cold, windswept deserts of southern Argentina |
| Itaipu Dam | World's largest hydroelectric dam - on Parana River |
