A. Give short answers.
1. Name the important highlands of South America.
2. Name a large lake of South America.
3. What are selvas?
4. What are the pampas?
5. What are the chief crops of South America?
6. Name the most industrialised nation of South America.
7. What are the physical boundaries of the Amazon basin?
Answers
1. Outside the Andes, South America has two principal highland areas: the Brazilian Highlands and the Guiana Highlands.
2. Lake Titicaca
3. 1. dense equatorial forest, esp in the Amazon basin, characterized by tall broad-leaved evergreen trees, epiphytes, lianas, etc. 2. a tract of such forest.
4. The Pampas are fertile South American lowlands that cover more than 1,200,000 square kilometres and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.
5. Many crops thrive in the tropical climates of South America. Cashews and Brazil nuts are cultivated.
6. In the two most industrialized countries, Argentina and Brazil, the production of foodstuffs, beverages, and tobacco accounts for only about one-seventh of the total manufacturing output.
7. Situated on the Equator, from which its name derives, it borders Colombia to the north, Peru to the east and the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It includes the Pacific archipelago of the Galapagos Islands
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Answer:
1. Brazilian highland and Guiana highland
2.lake Ontario
3. a tract of land covered by dense equitorial forest, especially in the Amazon basin
4. large treeless plains in South America are called Pampas
5.cash crops like coffee and cocoa
fruit like avacado, pineapple, papaya and guava
cashew and Brazil nuts
6.most industrialised nation of South America are Argentina and Brazil the production of food stuffs beverage and tobacco
7. Columbia to the north Peru to the east and west