GEOGRAPHY OF SOUTH AMERICA

KRISTINE HIRSCHMANN

INTRODUCTION

• It is describing the continent of South America.

• The features and the effects of the landscape on life in an area.

• Geography helps us to understand modern South America.

CAUSE AND EFFECT

• Cause- when 2 earths plates collide and pushed and upward.

• Effect-It will create volcanoes that are boundaries of volcanoes in the Andes

CAUSE AND EFFECT

• Cause-Patagonia is high, cold, and barren area.

• Effect-The harsh environment dose not support much life.

MAIN IDEAS

• Amazon river is the worlds second largest river.

• South America has three other big river basin.

• South America has plains as well as mountains and rivers.

MAIN IDEAS

• One dry place is the Atacama desert

• Blowing drifts of sand ,salt and minerals cover the land

CHAPTER 2HUMAN GEOGRAPHY OF SOUTH AMERICA

MAIN IDEAS

• Many languages are spaced throughout the continent.

• Geography sometimes makes travel around South America difficult.

CAUSE AND EFFECT

• Cause-Since a wide range of culture backgrounds live in South America.

• Effect-They celebrate different holidays and ways of life.

CAUSE AND EFFECT

• Cause-People think city jobs will make their life similar.

• Effect-Not every rural people cant always get jobs when they reach urban areas

MAIN IDEAS

• South America is sometimes called “hollow continent.

• The Pampass and Patagonia regions are large and empty.

MAIN IDEAS

• People have farmed and raised livestock in the Andes.

• They grow their own fruits and vegetables.

• They hunt for fish and meat.

CHAPTER 3GEOGRAPHY AND ITS ECONOMY