World Geography Scavenger Hunt: South America ~ FREE Printable
We have found one of the most fun things to do with geography is to “find” things. My kids love it when you give them a country, landmark or physical attribute such as river, mountain, body of water, and they race to see who can find it. Since we find this to be so much fun, but we often struggle with things to come up with for them to find, I decided to create a series of World Geography Scavenger Hunt printables.
This is the first in my series of World Geography Scavenger Hunt printables. We are starting our fun off with South America.
South America Facts
- The main languages spoken in South America is Portuguese closely followed by Spanish
- The largest country in South America is Brazil. Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world
- South America is connected to North America by a narrow strip of land called Isthmus of Panama
- The highest point in South America is Cerro Aconcagua in the Andes Mountains in the country of Argentina.
- The largest South American country in both size and population is Brazil. The largest city is Sao Paulo, Brazil, which is also one of the ten largest cities in the world.
- North and South America were named after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
- The highest waterfall in the world is Santo del Angel (also called Angel Falls). It is almost 1000 meters high!
- The Atacama Desert in Chile is considered to be one of the driest places on Earth.
- More than 30% of South America is covered by rainforests; the largest rainforest is the Amazon forest which is mainly enclosed within Brazil (60%)
- The longest river in South America is the Amazon River. Measuring a distance of 6,439 km (4,001 miles) it is considered to be the second longest river in the world (to the Nile in north-east Africa)
World Geography Scavenger Hunt – South America
Get out your wall map or atlas and get ready for some fun! Need some suggestions for map/atlas resources? Check out this Geography Resources article.
If you want to do this on an individual basis as more of a mapping exercise, consider purchasing Wonder Maps from Bright Ideas Press. It is a mapping software that includes political, physical, and historical maps. It allows you to select what features you want to show on the map and then print out as many copies as you need.
Download World Geography Scavenger Hunt Printable: South America
World Geography Scavenger Hunt Printables
Print and use all the World Geography Scavenger Hunt printables! I will link the rest of the series here as I create them!
1. North & Central America
2. Europe
3. Asia
4. Africa
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April 6, 2015 @ 9:44 am
This is a great post, I would like to invite you to share on http://howtogetorganizedathome.com/monday-madness-april-6th/ my readers would love what you have to say!
April 6, 2015 @ 12:31 pm
LOVE this South America Unit!! Many thanks for linking up at Diamonds in the Rough linky party!!!
April 6, 2015 @ 1:54 pm
So glad you think your readers will like this one. I linked it up! 🙂
April 6, 2015 @ 2:07 pm
These are great. I love Wondermaps. 🙂
April 6, 2015 @ 2:15 pm
Me too Leah! I love how much control you can have over the maps you create from Wondermaps!
April 8, 2015 @ 11:32 am
Hi Heidi, is there a way to receive emails from you so I can follow this series? Thanks~~di
April 8, 2015 @ 1:36 pm
Of course Diane! You can subscribe to my weekly newsletter which contains all the posts from the week at this link: http://eepurl.com/dBHbr (You can also find this in the right sidebar of my blog)
April 8, 2015 @ 1:38 pm
thank you so much!
April 8, 2015 @ 8:36 pm
Thank you, Heidi!
April 9, 2015 @ 6:45 pm
You are most welcome Maureen! 🙂
January 30, 2018 @ 5:13 pm
Am I crazy? I can’t figure out how to print them.
January 30, 2018 @ 7:29 pm
Right below the image it says “Download World Geography Scavenger Hunt Printable…” and the text is hyperlinked to a pdf for you to download. Then you save the pdf to your computer and then print the pdf.
August 23, 2018 @ 10:08 am
Hi! My name is Juanita and I am a Colombian teacher. Your packages are fantastic! Thank you!! I just wanted to say that in South America people speak mostly Spanish and not Portuguese…. Portuguese is only spoken in Brazil.
August 23, 2018 @ 10:27 am
Juanita, thank you so much for that information! It’s great to hear from someone with more personal experience!
October 15, 2018 @ 12:06 am
Wow! Your world geography scavenger hunts are incredible!! Did you ever do ones for Antarctica and Australia as the 2 remaining continents? My kids have loved these and are eager to finish off with the last two. Please let me know if there is a link or a chance you could email them if you have them. My email is jamie.straile @ gmail .com
October 15, 2018 @ 10:37 am
Hi Jamie! I’m so glad you have loved these scavenger hunts! Unfortunately, I didn’t feel there was enough to cover in terms of a “scavenger hunt” for Antarctica and Australia so I never included them. There is a series of books that I love for Geography that has Oceania. Here is the link: https://amzn.to/2IW3xLJ
March 4, 2020 @ 12:48 am
Your packages are fantastic! Thank you!! I just wanted to say that in South America people speak mostly Spanish and not Portuguese