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| South America's Tropical North consists of five countries and a colony. Put these 5 countries and the colony in the correct spot on your map | not applicable | What two countries are twice the size of California? | Colombia and Venezuela | What countries are the third and fourth largest and are the size of Colorado and Kansas, respectively? | Ecuador and Guyana | What country is the size of Washington State? | Suriname | What country is the size of Maine? | French Guiana | What mountain range runs the length of South America with elevations that exceed 18,000 feet, are covered with snow year-round, and has about 40 peaks that are volcanoes? | Andes Mountain Range | What is the world's highest active volcano located in Ecuador? | Cotopaxi | In Colombia, what mountains along the Caribbean coast are the world's highest coastal range? | Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta | What country is the only country in South America with coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea? | Colombia | What is the Darien and where is it located? | A wilderness region of deep ravines, swamps, and dense rain forest along Colombia's border with Panama. | What part of Venezuela contains a heavily forested region of rolling hills, low mountains, and plateaus called the Guiana Highlands? | Southern | What river is 1,300 miles long and is the continent's third-longest river system with more than 400 tributaries? | Orinoco River | Which waterfall is the world's highest waterfall, 20 times higher than Niagara falls) and has water that plunges more than half-mile to the base? | Angel Falls | The tropical North region has coastlines on three bodies of Water. What are they? Add them to your map. | Pacific Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Atlantic Ocean | What are Colombia's two main rivers that flow north across the Andes plateaus and valleys to the Caribbean Sea that form important routes into the country's agricultural and industrial interior? | Magdalena and Cauca | What river in Ecuador is the most important because it has made Guayaquil the country's largest city and a major port? | Guayas River | What islands lie in the Pacific about 6000 miles west of Ecuador with 13 major islands, 6 smaller ones, and many tiny islands called islets? | Galapagos Islands | Why are the Galapagos Islands home to many unusual animals such as lizards that swim and birds with wings that cannot fly? | they are isolated | Who explored the Galapagos Islands and developed his theory of evolution? | Charles Darwin | South America's Tropical North lies along the Equator. Despite its location, the region has a variety of climates, why? | Variations result from the differences in elevation and location, and from the influence of the ocean currents and winds. | The coastal and eastern lowlands of Ecuador and Colombia have a tropical monsoon climate, what does this mean? | short, dry season and a long wet season of heavy rainfall. | Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana have a tropical wet-dry climate, but their coasts are not as hot as might be expected. Why is this? | Because of the trade winds that blow from higher latitudes toward the equator. | Mountain climates depend on elevation. What are the different climate zones and what do they mean? | tierra templada, temperate land, tierra fria, cold land, paramo, an even colder zone that is permanently covered with snow and ice. | Oil is found across much of the Tropical North, but which country is South America's top producer of oil? | Venezuela | Where are some of the world's largest known reserves? | the Llanos, at the mouth of the Orinoco River, and offshore in the Caribbean. | What country is South America's largest coal producer with major deposits in its lowlands? | Colombia | What important mineral is found throughout the Tropical North with the largest deposits in Colombia's mountains, eastern Ecuador, and Venezuela's Guiana Highlands? | Gold | What gem is mined from Colombia to Suriname? | Diamonds | Because Ecuador's agriculture is not well developed, and there the amount of farmland is limited, Ecuadorans grow only enough to feed their families. What do they grow as common crops? | corn, potatoes, beans, and cassava | What does Colombia produce as their crops? | rice, wheat, sugarcane, and cattle, and cotton | What is Venezuela's main cash crop? | Coffee. | Why does Guyana, Suriname, and French Guyana have little farming? | Because much of the land is covered by rainforest. | What is not a major economic activity in the Tropical North, and having it missing is unusual for countries that border the sea? | Fishing |