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STUDY LOCATIONS using your 1:4,000,000 South America map and sample outline maps: Geography.About.com maps: South America A note: Matt Rosenberg, the geography guy at About.com is a part-timer with the Geography Department. Houghton Mifflin maps: South America National Geographic Maps: South America Univ. of Alabama maps: Americas World Atlas of Maps: South America The first map quiz will use two outline maps. One of the outline maps will show political boundaries; on that map you will be asked to locate 12 or 13 items from the placename list of countries, capitals, and major cities below. The second outline map will show major water bodies and landforms; on that map you will be asked to locate 12 or 13 items from the second placename list. FIRST LIST (30 items): POLITICAL MAP Countries Capitals Other Cities Argentina Buenos Aires Bolivia La Paz; Sucre Brazil Brasília Rio de Janeiro; São Paulo Chile Santiago Colombia Bogotá Ecuador Quito Guayaquil Guyana Georgetown Guyane (Fr. Guiana) Cayenne Paraguay Asunción Peru Lima Suriname Paramaribo Uruguay Montevideo Venezuela Caracas SECOND LIST (30 items): PHYSICAL MAP Aconcagua, Mt. (Cerro Aconcagua) Andes Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) Angel Falls (Salto Angel) Amazon Rainforest/Amazonia (Selvas Amazônicas) Amazon River (Rio Amazonas) Atacama Desert (Desierto de Atacama) Atlantic Ocean (Océano Atlántico) Brazilian Highlands (Planalto Central do Brasil) Caribbean Sea (Mar Caribe) Chaco (Gran Chaco) Guiana Highlands (Guiana Massif) Llanos (Llanos del Orinoco) Madeira, Rio Magdalena River (Río Magdalena) Magellan, Straits of (Estrecho de Magallanes) Maracaibo, Lake (Lago de Maracaibo) Negro, Rio [Brazil] Orinoco River (Río Orinoco) Pacific Ocean (Océano Pacífico) Pampas (Pampas de la Argentina) Paraguay River (Río Paraguay) Paraná River (Río Paraná) Pantanal Patagonia Pilcomayo, Río São Francisco River (Rio São Francisco) Tierra del Fuego (Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego) Titicaca, Lake (Lago Titicaca) Tocantins, Rio Uruguay River (Río Uruguay) Return to GEOG. 122B SYLLABUS Return to GEOG. 122B SCHEDULE Return to HALLINAN'S HOME