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3. Briefly, explain the history of South America.
A. Name the water bodies that surround South America. How is the continent linked with
North America?
5 Name the group of islands that are formed to the north and south of South America.​

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3. South America is thought to have been first inhabited by humans when people were crossing the Bering Land Bridge (now the Bering Strait) at least 15,000 years ago from the territory that is present-day Russia. They migrated south through North America, and eventually reached South America through the Isthmus of Panama.

a. South America is bounded by the Caribbean Sea to the northwest and north, the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast, east, and southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. In the northwest it is joined to North America by the Isthmus of Panama, a land bridge narrowing to about 50 miles (80 km) at one point

5. Tristan da Cunha, island and group of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, about midway between southern Africa and South America

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