Purpose/Overview:

Students will use geographic clues and mental mapping to locateSouth American countries and relative location clues to locatemajor landforms and bodies of water.

Objectives:

Students will use geographic clues and mental mapping to locate thecountries of South America on a blank outline map.

Students will use relative location clues to locate South Americanlandforms and bodies of water on a blank outline map.

Students will obtain a visual image of South American landforms andbodies of water by viewing PowerPoint photographs of each feature.

Procedures:

Students will label all the countries of South America on a blank outline map without looking at a map or globe.

Students will use the South American Puzzle sheet of geographic cluesto locate the countries on a blank outline map of South America.

When all students have finished, show the answers on PowerPointand have them check their answers.

Help students label the Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, and PacificOcean before they begin locating the countries.

Show the remaining PowerPoint slides depicting South Americanlandforms and bodies of water.

Ask students to use a physical map of South America to help themlocate the landforms and bodies of water on their outline maps as they see them depicted in the photographs.

National Geographic Society

BRAZIL

VENZUELA

COLOMBIA

BOLIVIA

ECUADOR

URUGUAY

PARAGUAY

ARGENTINA

CH

ILE

PERU

GUYANA

SURINAM

E

FR. GUIA

NA

CARIBBEAN SEA

PACIFICOCEAN

ATLANTICOCEAN

Procedures:

Students will label all the countries of South America on a blank outline map without looking at a map or globe.

Students will use the South American Puzzle sheet of geographic cluesto locate the countries on a blank outline map of South America.

When all students have finished, show the answers on PowerPointand have them check their answers.

Help students label the Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, and PacificOcean before they begin locating the countries.

Show the remaining PowerPoint slides depicting South Americanlandforms and bodies of water.

Ask students to use a physical map of South America to help themlocate the landforms and bodies of water on their outline maps as they see them depicted in the photographs.

What mountain range stretches from Ecuador through Chile seen here surrounding Chacabuco, Chile?

All photos without URLs are by Glenda Sullivan

Andes Mountains

What are the table-like mountains located in southeast Venezuela,Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and northern Brazil?

http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/181689.JPG

Guiana Highlands

http://www.braziltravelnews.com/photos/chapada2.jpg

What is the low mountainrange in the eastern, southern and central portion of Brazil?

Brazilian Highlands

Isabela Island seenin this satelliteimage is the largestisland of what archipelago thatis a province ofEcuador?Latitude/longitudeis 0⁰, 91⁰ W.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galapagos_Islands

Galapagos Islands

Google Earth.lnk

www.gonomad.com/.../Atacama_desert.jpg

What is one of the driest deserts in the world located in Chile?

Atacama Desert

What is the world’s highest waterfallslocated in Venezuela?

www.islamargarita.com/images/AngelFalls2.jpg

Angel Falls

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguazu_Falls

Consisting of 275 cascades what falls forms the border between Brazil and Argentina?

Iguazu Falls

http://vaughanwylie.com/images/amazon-river.jpg

What is the largest river in the world by volume?

Amazon River

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Maracaibo

What is the largestlake in South America located in Venezuela?

Lake Maracaibo

What is the highest navigable lake in the world located on the border between Peru and Bolivia?

http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/88/3888-004-486D18C6.jpg

Lake Titicaca

What rain forest is located in nine South American countries?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:River_in_the_Amazon_rainforest.jpg

Amazon Rain Forest

What is the widest estuary in the world located between Montevideo, Uruguay and Buenos Aires, Argentina?

Rio de la Plata

What archipelago is separated from Argentina by the Strait of Magellan?

Tierra del Fuego

What is the southernmost island in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile?

Cape Horn

What navigable sea route separates Argentina fromTierra del Fuego and cuts through southern Chile?

Strait of Magellan