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Class
Date
Vocabulary Builder
Pacific South America
Section 1 altiplano
Andes
Atacama Desert
El Niño
Galápagos Islands
Tierra del Fuego
strait
tectonic plates
DIRECTIONS On the line provided before each statement, write T if a
statement is true and F if a statement is false. If the statement is false, write the correct term on the line after each sentence that makes the sentence a true statement. ______ 1. The Andes run through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile.
______ 2. Earthquakes and volcanoes threaten the Andes because two altiplanos
meet at the region’s edge.
______ 3. Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands have wildlife not found anywhere else.
______ 4. Every few years, an ocean and weather pattern called Tierra del Fuego
warms the normally cool Pacific waters.
______ 5. The strait in Northern Chile is about 600 miles long.
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